[osint] Islamic Concepts Misunderstood by Westerners

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http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/op-ed/islamic-concepts-misunderstood-by
-westerners/

 

Islamic concepts misunderstood by Westerners.

6/5/2011

 

Islamic concepts misunderstood by Westerners.

jonmc

Freedom

The Western viewpoint.

In the West "freedom" is used to describe a whole range of things
encompassed in civil, political and individual rights.

Perhaps the most succinct definition of "freedom" is that of Thomas
Jefferson: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."

He went on to say: "I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law
is often [nothing] but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the
rights of the individual."

Quite explicit in Jefferson's definition is that all people have equal
rights and that all (non-tyrannical) laws must apply equally to all people
without exception. (This idea was put in British law as the law acting
indifferently -as in "without difference" - towards all people.)

 

The Islamic viewpoint.

The entry on freedom, or "hurriyya", in the "Encyclopedia of Islam"
describes a state of divine enthralment that bears no resemblance to any
Western understanding of freedom as predicated on the workings of the
individual conscience. According to the encyclopedia, Islamic freedom is
"the recognition of the essential relationship between God the master and
His human slaves who are completely dependent on Him." 

Ibn Arabi, a Sufi scholar of note, is cited for having defined freedom as
"being perfect slavery to Allah". 

 

To put it another way, Islamic-style "freedom" is freedom from unbelief (
"Khufr") in Islam.

 

Is this cause for concern? 

According to the Pew report (2010) 84% of Egyptians favour the death penalty
for apostates from Islam and a slightly greater percentage (90%) favour
religious freedom.

To the Western mind this is "double-think". If you favour killing those who
leave your religion, then you don't believe in religious freedom.
Conversely, if you believe in religious freedom you don't kill those who
leave your religion. 

To the Islamic mind there is no contradiction because "religious freedom" is
understood to mean the freedom to practice only Islam, in other words
"freedom from Khufr" (unbelief in Islam).

Thus, whereas to the Western mind freedom means basically the right to "do
what you want", to the Muslim mind freedom means "the right to fully
practice Islam" which in turn means the full implementation of Sharia law
(including all its discriminatory elements against the non-Muslim, women
etc).

Note: many Muslims may well want freedom from their dictatorial rulers too
(who often are not very "Islamic" themselves) as seen in the recent unrest
(2011) in the Mid. East. But this is not to say that what they mean by
freedom is what we would naturally assume it to be.

 

Peace

Apart from obvious definition of peace being "an absence of conflict [war]",
this is a surprisingly difficult concept to truly pin down from any
perspective.

The Western perspective:

The English word "peace" means tranquillity or serenity, silence, freedom
from war, freedom from anxiety, a state of harmony and tolerance between
people etc. 

Tolerance, in its original incarnation was putting up with stuff with which
you did not agree, but - and here's the rub - implicit was that all parties
shared fundamental attitudes to society.

Thus all Americans (irrespective of their roots) would support "truth,
justice and the American way" (and who could argue with Superman!), all
Frenchmen would accept the principles of "Liberty, equality and fraternity".
Britain has no such catchy slogan, but perhaps the parallel would be "for
Crown and Country".

Today, however, this view has become altered, though perhaps distorted might
be a better choice of word, by the multi-cultural paradigm, which sees
plurality in all things as worthy of toleration and even celebration - even
if what we are supposed to tolerate and celebrate is an ideology dedicated
to the destruction of the Western way of life.

Despite this, I suspect that all people would fundamentally agree that
"peace" means people of different races, colours and creeds getting along
with each other, with (fundamentally) shared goals and, crucially perhaps,
in a state of tranquillity -ie a lack of (mutual) fear.

 

The Islamic viewpoint.
Ibrahim Sulaiman says, "Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary
violence and bloodshed, its ultimate desire is peace which is protected and
enhanced by the rule of [Sharia] law." 

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Zakzouk in his book "On Philosophy Culture and Peace in
Islam" (available as pdf) devotes an entire chapter to the "The Islamic
concept of Peace". Clearly I cannot reproduce that here, but he talks about
the "path to peace" and the "straight path to peace". Both are allusions to
the prayer said in every Rakat of Salah (Islamic ritual prayer) "Guide us to
the straight path. The Way of those on wh

[osint] Sink To the Bottom With Me

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http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011060513739/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/sin
k-to-the-bottom-with-me.html

 

Sink To the Bottom With Me 

Sunday, 05 June 2011 05:32 Daniel Greenfield 

 
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What do you think about Global Warming? It doesn't matter what you think.
Not if you live in New York, Berlin, Yokohama or Karachi that is. On behalf
of his C40 group, Mayor Bloomberg explained
  to the BBC, "Your job is not to ask the public where they want to go and
get behind them. Your job is to tell the public".

But the BBC knows that already. They've been telling the public what to
think for a long time now. And they don't need lessons on that from some
parvenu yank billionaire. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs and
don't presume to teach the BBC how to disdainfully ignore public opinion for
the public's own good.

bloombergunderwaterWhile Bloomberg "leads from the front" in his Large
Cities Climate Leadership Group or C40 group (the manufacture of Orwellian
acronyms accounts for 30 percent of carbon emissions from climate change
propaganda), New Yorkers are busy protesting in the streets

over firehouse closings. Residents of the city are not concerned about
global warming. They're worried about local incineration. Forget the tides
and do something about the firehoses.

Not that his Imperial Mayorality is listening. Real leaders don't listen to
the public. They drive tanks over them. As the mayors of Shanghai and
Beijing, also members of the LCCLG or C40, know. The peasants may cry for
firehouses, but what do they know anyway. Each firehouse emits carbon. Every
time a fire engine races off to save an apartment building, metric tons of
carbon is released into the software algorithms of climate change
researchers. Better to let the peasants burn and save the planet.

"If you ask the public 'is there global warming,' 'is in 50 years the earth
going to be dramatically different or perhaps uninhabitable,' their eyes
roll. Nobody can think 50 years in advance", says Bloomy. Nobody clearly
doesn't include the mayor. Fortunately the city is blessed with a leader who
couldn't see a snow emergency coming two days ahead of time, but has no
trouble parting the mists of time and seeing half a century into the future.

While snow was falling on Brooklyn, the Prophet of City Hall was pondering a
distant future when the whole city would be underwater because too many
trucks have been crossing the BQE. Forget Mayor. It's time the city got
Bloomberg a crystal ball, a deck of tarot cards and something to gird his
loins with, if he has any, and appoint him our seer and prophet. We've been
shamefully wasting the man's time on minutiae like our worries about burning
to death because we only have a skeletal fire department, when we should be
coming to him with questions about the strange world of the future.

"Tell me Mayor Mike, will there still be mayors in the future?" "Yes, but
they will all be underwater, have gold skin and be worshiped as gods at
international conferences."

It's funny until you remember that the snow emergency which the city
neglected 
in order to participate in planning conferences for Waterworld actually cost
human lives. People died because the ruling class was too busy wrapped up in
an underwater end of days to attend to petty matters like doing their jobs.
In the winter they died in ice, while officials planned to combat the rising
tides of the future with bicycle lanes. Will they burn to death in summer
because officials are too busy pushing roof painting to consider the people
living under those roofs as anything but carbon waste on two legs?

nycwaterworldOur governments are being run by a cult that makes Harold
Camping seem positively rational. An apocalyptic elite that proudly
celebrates its disdain for the common man. Mediocre politicians guided by a
science they don't understand, allowing themselves to be weaponized into
tools of mass regulation in the name of a philosophy that sees the human
race as one giant waste product. Plastic cups of Kool Aid with instructions
to drink them in atonement to Gaia haven't come in the mail yet, but at the
rate we're going it's only a matter of time.

The problem isn't Bloomberg. He's just the tackiest member of an
international coterie. A billionaire with bad taste who bought his job and
is now trying to buy an international role commensurate with his sense of
self-importance. His quips are awkward. On camera he has all the charisma of
a dead fish. He litters City Hall park with modern art that woul

[osint] Allen West weekly report

[Beowulf]

The week began with a vote on a clean raising of the debt limit which had
been requested from the President, Secretary of the Treasury, and some 100
House Democrats. The measure failed considerably and did not even garner 100
House Democrats to support it. The following day we had our House GOP
Conference "field trip" to the White House, because that is exactly what it
ended up being. What I witnessed was quite disturbing: a rigid ideological
President who does not realize his fiscal policies are failing -- and he has
no plan.

I am very concerned about the carbon footprint of having five buses of 240
House GOP members going to the White House. Seems to me the opposite would
have been far more prudent, with the President instead coming to Capitol
Hill.

The following day, the Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, came to
visit the House GOP Freshman and indeed it was yet another wasted trip. In
just eight short minutes, the Treasury Secretary assured me that he does not
have a clue when it comes to enacting spending cuts and spending control
measures as part of the revitalization of our fiscal and economic policies,
including mandatory spending reforms, which the President stated he agreed
on Wednesday.

It would seem that after Friday's abysmal jobs report numbers, which
included half of the reported job growth coming from McDonald's (a recipient
of an Obamacare waiver, by the way), one would think there would be a change
in course. Nah, just dig in your heels, and follow the same failed policies.
We have seen a 40% increase in Americans on food stamps since the President
took the oath of office. Gasoline prices have gone from around $1.89 a
gallon to close to $4 on average for regular unleaded.

There are three critical aspects which we must rectify. First, we must
restore confidence with our job creators and consumers. Second, we must
ensure the proper amount of regulation, providing access to capital for our
small business owners. Lastly, we must provide certainty for the private
sector and investors to create long term viable and sustainable economic and
job growth.

The other point of order I wish to address is the so-called "Arab Spring" -
truly a "Muslim Brotherhood Nightmare." Those who view the events across
North Africa and the Middle East with Western rose-colored glasses are
completely misreading the situation. The goal of the Brotherhood has always
been to restore an Islamic Caliphate, a borderless empire which shall be
ruled by one leader. They have no respect for the secular leadership,
autocratic, despotic dictators which permeate this region. However, under
the guise of "Democracy" and dare I say it, "Change" they are toppling these
regimes one by one - and we have no competent understanding of who shall
fill the void.

One need only look back in history when the same occurred in Iran and we all
witnessed, and continue to witness, the revitalization of the 7th century
radical Islamic state model under the guidance of theocrats. Under this
guidance we have seen the resurgence of Islamic terrorism, state sponsored
from this very same Iran.

There is no Arab Spring, but there is an Islamic mystery as to who shall not
only fill the void in these countries, but where shall the seat of power for
this 21st Century Caliphate be established? Iran or Turkey?

Libya is falling apart, and I shall not support our President's violation of
our law, the War Powers Act of 1973. The leader of Yemen has departed and we
know that is where al-Alawi has found refuge.

Most troubling, thanks to the President's foreign policy faux pas statement,
is that we now see the "Palestinians" threatening a direct move to the
United Nations for declaration of a state, as they confront Israel along the
1967 borders. Please read my Extension of Remarks here.
 

Let us never forget that the armies of several Arab nations, were the
belligerents in 1967 - and they lost. Israel shall not return to those
borders which shall result in their demise. If we want peace in that region,
we need a willing peace partner. Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah entering into a
reconciliation pact with Hamas, facilitated by Egypt, is not what I call a
willing gesture for peace and recognition of the modern day State of Israel.






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[osint] The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals

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One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'

 

The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an

army of informers among online criminals

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer

 


One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'


The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an
army of informers among online criminals

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A hacker's silhouette

A quarter of hackers in the US have been recruited by federal authorities,
according to Eric Corley, publisher of the hacker quarterly, 2600.
Photograph: Getty Images

The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated
in the US by the FBI   and secret
service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated
one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian
investigation has established.

Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to
co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison
sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside
the hacking   community.

In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as
marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have been run by
hacker turncoats acting as FBI moles. In others, undercover FBI agents
posing as "carders" - hackers specialising in ID theft - have themselves
taken over the management of crime forums, using the intelligence gathered
to put dozens of people behind bars.

So ubiquitous has the FBI informant network become that Eric Corley, who
publishes the hacker quarterly, 2600, has estimated that 25% of hackers in
the US may have been recruited by the federal authorities to be their eyes
and ears. "Owing to the harsh penalties involved and the relative
inexperience with the law that many hackers have, they are rather
susceptible to intimidation," Corley told the Guardian.

"It makes for very tense relationships," said John Young, who runs Cryptome,
a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks.
"There are dozens and dozens of hackers who have been shopped by people they
thought they trusted."

The best-known example of the phenomenon is Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker
who turned informant on Bradley Manning, who is suspected of passing secret
documents to WikiLeaks. Manning had entered into a prolonged instant
messaging conversation with Lamo, whom he trusted and asked for advice. Lamo
repaid that trust by promptly handing over the 23-year-old intelligence
specialist to the military authorities. Manning has now been in custody for
more than a year.

For acting as he did, Lamo has earned himself the sobriquet of Judas and the
"world's most hated hacker", though he has insisted that he acted out of
concern for those he believed could be harmed or even killed by the
WikiLeaks publication of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

"Obviously it's been much worse for him but it's certainly been no picnic
for me," Lamo has said. "He followed his conscience, and I followed mine."

The latest challenge for the FBI in terms of domestic US breaches are the
anarchistic co-operatives of "hacktivists" that have launched several
high-profile cyber-attacks in recent months designed to make a statement. In
the most recent case a group calling itself Lulz Security
  launched an audacious raid
  on the FBI's own linked organisation InfraGard. The raid,
which was a blatant two fingers up at the agency, was said to have been a
response to news that the Pentagon was poised to declare fo

[osint] US Drone Kills Wanted Pakistani Terrorist Leader

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US Drone Kills Wanted Pakistani Terrorist Leader

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/06/06/Mystery-shrouds-death-of-al-Q
aida-head/UPI-58041307378302/

 

BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 6 (UPI) -- The reported death of Mohammed Ilyas
Kashmiri, considered one of the most dangerous of al-Qaida's commanders and
strategists, in a missile attack in Pakistan remains shrouded in mystery.

If he is dead, it would mark a major coup for the Americans hard on the
heels of the killing of   Osama
bin Laden in a May 2 U.S. Navy SEALs strike on his hideout near Islamabad,
Pakistan's capital.

The Long War Journal, which monitors international terrorism, reported a
purported photo of Kashmiri's body posted on a jihadist Web site by a
Pakistani group associated with Kashmiri was actually that of Abu Dera
Ismail Khan, a fighter of the Lashkar-e Toiba, or Army of the Pure, killed
in the November 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai.

Kashmiri, who is also a leader of the Harakat ul Jihad al-Islami and an
elite jihadist unit known as Brigade 313, was reported killed with other
fighters in a missile attack Friday night by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle
in the Wana area of South Waziristan, an Islamist stronghold in northern
Pakistan.

HUJI spokesman Abu Hanzla Kashir reported Kashmiri's death in a written
statement, monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group, less than 24 hours
after the attack and vowed to attack the United States to avenge the
slaying.

The statement was posted on the Shamukh al-Islam forum, a Web site
frequented by jihadists linked to al-Qaida, along with the purported image
of Kashmiri's corpse.

There were also misspellings in the text of the statement, including the
HUJI's name, which cast further doubt on its veracity.

Several Taliban leaders in Pakistan, along with Pakistani security
officials, have said that Kashmiri was killed in Friday's missile strike.

But U.S. intelligence officers contacted by The Long War Journal Sunday said
they couldn't confirm that Kashmiri was dead because they couldn't enter
Waziristan to examine the body or check its DNA.

One said the jihadists may have reported Kashmiri's death as part of a
deception plan, possibly to throw U.S. forces off his trail but there is no
record that Islamist groups have sought to fake the death of a prominent
figures in the past.

Still, the reported killing of Kashmiri came within a few days of reports
that joint teams of U.S. CIA and Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence
directorate agents had been formed to hunt down top Taliban and al-Qaida
leaders, including Kashmiri.

The establishment of these units indicates a new sense of cooperation
between the Americans and Pakistanis, who have long been distrustful of each
other.

The Americans say many officers and factions within the ISI, Pakistan
paramount intelligence organization, sympathize and work with the Taliban,
al-Qaida and the various Islamist groups operating in Pakistan and
Afghanistan.

There are other aspects of the reported killing of Kashmiri that merit
attention.

The nighttime drone attack on Wana was mounted five days after the
disappearance of prominent Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad of the
Asia Times Online who specialized in terrorism and security affairs and had
contacts with Kashmiri.

Shahzad vanished in Islamabad May 29 after he'd been questioned at ISI
headquarters about a report he published that al-Qaida attacked a naval base
in Karachi May 22 in retaliation for the arrest of two naval officers
suspected of links with the group.

That attack, purportedly masterminded by Kashmiri, was a major embarrassment
for the Pakistani military in the wake of the Americans' killing of bin
Laden, who had been living in plain sight in a garrison town for several
years, possibly with the knowledge of Pakistani authorities.

Shahzad had interviewed Kashmiri in September 2009, after the jihadist
chieftain had been reported killed in a UAV attack.

The 40-year-old journalist had told colleagues he feared the ISI was out to
kill him because of his contacts with Kashmiri and other jihadists.

Shahzad's body, showing signs of torture, was found May 31 on a canal bank
80 miles southeast of Islamabad. The ISI denied any involvement in his
death.

Meantime, two senior operatives with ties to al-Qaida, a commander
associated with bin Laden and a leader of the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan, were captured last week in Afghanistan.



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[osint] In Syria, Government's Doublespeak Infuriates Protesters

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In Syria, Government's Doublespeak Infuriates Protesters

News & Analysis

http://www.cyberdissidents.org/bin/content.cgi?ID=690 
 &q=3&s=24

 

The Syrian government says it has lifted emergency law, implemented new 
parliamentary laws and media freedoms, investigated police brutality and 
granted all political prisoners amnesty. So why are people still protesting?

Because these announcements do not coincide with action.

More than 1,200 civilians have died and at least 10,000 have been arrested 
since protests began against President Bashar al-Assad’s government in 
mid-March, according to rights groups. Repression and extrajudicial arrests 
continue to increase.

Friday was one of the bloodiest days since the 10-week uprising began, with an 
internet blackout temporarily preventing footage of Syrian security forces 
opening fire on a 50,000-strong anti-government protest in Hama from leaving 
the country. At least 53 people died in Hama and another 10 elsewhere 
throughout the country that day, said the human rights organization Sawasiah.

An additional 35 people were killed since Saturday in the northern towns Jisr 
al-Shughour and Khan Sheikhoun, according to human rights groups, making this 
past weekend one of the bloodiest since the protests began 
  [3].

Tanks also rolled into Hama Saturday night, where 100,000 people marched in 
funerals for those killed Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights 
reported. On Sunday morning, at least three demonstrators were killed in a town 
in the northwestern province of Idlib.

Despite the ongoing violence, the government continues to insist it is 
implementing reforms.

On May 31, Assad granted amnesty for “all members of Muslim Brotherhood and 
other detainees belonging to political movements.” Several hundred political 
prisoners were released the next day.

The announcement ��" and the doublespeak and deception it represents ��" 
aggravated rather than mitigated the scale of protests after Friday prayers, 
several sources in Damascus said.

Those demanding an end to the autocratic, 48-year Ba’ath Party rule are cynical 
about the announcement and similar recent moves. On June 1 and June 2, Syrian 
opposition figures held a conference in Antalya in Southern Turkey, calling for 
Assad’s immediate resignation and dismissing the amnesty measure as “too 
little, too late.”

“I don't think there’s a real intention to conduct any real reforms,” agreed 
Feeras Ajlouni, an economics graduate from Damascus who opposes the regime. 
“Some may hit the surface, but [there is] nothing hardcore to change the 
authoritarian nature of the regime.”

A caveat in the amnesty, for instance, says it only covers Muslim Brotherhood 
members who turned themselves into police and confess membership ��" likely a 
small group.

Washington, too, was frustrated by this nominal gesture and the small number of 
prisoners released so far.

“The release of some political prisoners is not the release of all political 
prisoners. We need to see all political prisoners released,” said Mark Toner, 
the U.S. state department deputy spokesman.

Other announced reforms simply go ignored.

Assad on April 21 said he was lifting the state of emergency that has empowered 
the country’s secret police force and justified the detention of political 
prisoners because of Syria’s longstanding state of war with Israel. But the 
secret police has only become more ubiquitous in recent weeks. Plainclothes men 
with lists of names stand at check points along the country’s roads ��" 
particularly in neighborhoods where there is conflict or where certain minority 
groups live ��" looking for accused dissidents and arresting people daily.

Syrian state TV this week said Assad has also launched a “national dialogue” 
aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis, and has set up a committee 
to investigate the killing of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khateeb ��" an incident 
which inflamed anger throughout the week and made the death of more than 30 
children since protests began the focal point of Friday’s protests. Previous 
government committees tasked with investigating crimes committed by police in 
Deraa and elsewhere have yet to find any wrongdoing.

“I love those secret governmental probing committees that ‘would’ look into 
crimes, spearheaded by high-ranking officials,” said a 31-year-old Syrian 
engineer who left the country to avoid obligatory military service in February.

Assad said he is also reforming Syrian elections, by drafting a law that will 
allow members of political parties not aligned with the ruling Ba’ath party to 
run for office. The law, however, it was announced last week, will not rescind 
Article 8 of the Syrian constitution, which declares the Ba’ath Party to be 
“leader of the Syrian government and society.”

There are also plans for a new media law 

[osint] Why Would Anyone Rush Syria's Border With Israel? The Pay is Good.

[Beowulf]

 

[According to Wikipedia, “the Reform Party of Syria, or RPS is a political 
party committed to democracy and reform in Syria. It is based in the United 
States because the present Syrian government does not allow opposition 
political parties to form without permission.” df]

 

 

 

 RPS STATEMENT CONCERNING THE ASSAD STOMPERS OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS

 

Sunday, 05 June 2011 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Washington DC, June 5, 2011. The Reform Party of Syria has learned today, from 
intelligence sources close to the Assad regime in Lebanon, that Syrians 
storming through the Golan Height next to the Quneitra crossing are Syrian 
farmers who have migrated in recent years from the drought-stricken northeast 
Syria to the south. Estimates put the number at 250,000 impoverished migrants.

 

Information received cite the regime has paid hundreds of these farmers $1,000 
each to show-up and $10,000 to their families should any of them succumb to 
Israeli fire. In Syria, an average salary is about $200 a month and to these 
impoverished farmers, such a one-time sum can keep them economically afloat for 
six months.

 

Such tactic was used in the past by another defunct Ba'ath Party in Iraq, under 
Saddam Hussein, to pay Intifada-driven Palestinians the sum of $25,000 to their 
next-of-kin should they die throwing stones. That measure had a worldwide 
impact and it seems the Assad regime is using the same play from a twin 
playbook.

 

It is obvious, with this action, Assad wants to divert the attention of the 
world away from his own massacres and brutality that resulted in some 70 deaths 
yesterday and about 30 today in Jisr al-Shoghour. RPS expects, on the basis of 
today's success, for these operations of incursions to multiply in scope in the 
near future for two reasons: 1) Divert the attention away from Assad's 
barbarism and savageries, and 2) Stand tall again in the eyes of the regime's 
supporters whose morale has taken quite a beating the last 3 months because of 
the violence perpetrated by Assad against unarmed civilians.

 

On this day of Naksa, RPS strongly believes in ownership and title of its Golan 
Heights. But unlike a regime bred on the use of violence, the Syrian people, 
demonstrating how peaceful they are as they endure one massacre after another, 
believe in peaceful negotiations to repatriate our lands. If Assad really 
wanted the Golan Heights, he would walk the same peaceful path Anwar Sadat 
walked long before him. But then, if he does, how can he justify his own 
existence as the "Commandant de la Résistance". For Assad, winning through 
peace means also losing the war against his own people.

 

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[osint] Texas Holds Useless 'Don't Touch My Junk' Rally

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/05/texas-holds-dont-touch-my-junk-rally/?t
est=latestnews?test=latestnews

 

Texas Holds 'Don't Touch My Junk' Rally

Published June 05, 2011

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AUSTIN, Texas -  Dozens gathered at the Capitol in Austin on Saturday
demanding a stop to TSA officers "touching their junk" at the airport.

Rally attendees are hoping to call attention to a recently proposed Texas
bill that would limit TSA searches and enforce criminal charges for TSA
officers if they touch someone inappropriately. The bill passed unanimously
in the House, but died in the Senate.

The U.S. Attorney's office was furious with the bill, threatening to cancel
 flights in Texas if the bill passed,
arguing that TSA agents would not be able to do their jobs properly. The
Senate heeded this warning and voted against the bill.

Those at the "Don't Touch My Junk" rally hope the governor will resurrect
the bill in special session.

"We're urging Governor Perry -- please do what you say and be fed up and
let's get this passed and bring it up in special session, and let's do it
for Texas," Heather Fazio, member of Texans for Accountable
 Government, told MyFoxAustin.com.

Others believe the TSA pat-downs are necessary and the bill should not pass.

"I think anything the country is doing to protect us is all well and good,"
Austin resident Janet Bates told MyFoxAustin.com. "If someone wants to file
a complaint, they can file a complaint. I don't think we need
 laws."



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[osint] Obama Seeks to Fool Electorate Again in 2012

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-06-08-Obama-brand-economy-campaig
n_n.htm?loc=interstitialskip

 

Obama seeks reshaped image for 2012 run

By   Susan Page, USA
TODAY

Updated 13h 19m ago | 

 
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WASHINGTON -The Obama Brand in 2008 was pretty simple: Hope and change.

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 Obama pushes to revamp his 2008 brand.

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Then things got complicated.

The jobless rate on Friday ticked above 9% again. The housing market
nationwide continues to fall. Gas prices are straining family's summertime
budgets.
 President Obama's signature
health care law to expand insurance coverage doesn't command majority
support more than a year after it was signed into law. Washington
negotiations on reducing the budget deficit are as polarized as ever.

Now, preparing for next year's re-election campaign, Obama is moving to
refurbish a political brand that has been defined for the worst by his
Republican opponents, dented by the realities of governing and battered by a
faltering economy. He is going on the road to Americans' workplaces to argue
he's made tough decisions that will pay off over time.

Even so, good news that has boosted the president's standing in USA
TODAY/Gallup Polls - the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden and
the controversial
 GOP plan to overhaul Medicare - haven't been enough to offset
the impact of bad news about the economy.

Surveys taken before and after the demise of the al-Qaeda leader show a
spike in approval of Obama's handling of terrorism and some increase in
views of him as a strong leader. More than 6 in 10 say he has "the
personality and leadership qualities a president should have."

News from On Politics

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Latest posts from USA TODAY On Politics blog

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But his approval rating on handling the issue Americans care about most, the
economy, has dipped to a dismal 37%. Asked whether the president deserves
re-election, those surveyed by 51%-47% say he does not.

"It was an extraordinary event, a courageous decision and an important step
forward for the country,"
 David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser,
says of the bin Laden operation. "Was it a transformative political event? I
can't say that. Ultimately people view these elections through the lens of
their own experiences, and right now that's the economy."

For the president, the economy is "the whale in the bathtub," says political
scientist   Steven
Schier, editor of Transforming America:
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[osint] Five American Soldiers Killed in Central Iraq

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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/five-american-soldiers-killed-central-ir

 

Five American Soldiers Killed in Central Iraq 

Largest loss of life for U.S. military in Iraq in 2 years

Monday, June 06, 2011 
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press 

  Iraqi violence

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a double bombing in Kirkuk, 180
miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, May 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Emad
Matti)

BAGHDAD (AP) - Five American troops were killed Monday in central Iraq, U.S.
officials said -- the single largest loss of life for the American military
in Iraq in the past two years.

The military said in a brief statement that the five were killed Monday,
giving no additional details about where the incident occurred or how they
died.

The incident was under investigation and the names of the deceased were
being withheld pending notification of the next of kin, the military said.

The deaths raised to 4,459 the number of American service members who have
died in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count.

The U.S. currently has roughly 46,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, down from a
one-time high of roughly 170,000. The American military officially ended its
combat operations in Iraq last August and reduced its forces to less than
50,000 troops.

The remaining forces are focused on training and assisting Iraqi security
personnel, and are not supposed to be actively engaged in combat operations.
However, American forces still come under almost daily attack by rockets and
mortars in their bases and get shot at and targeted by roadside bombs when
they move outside of their bases.

Monday's incident was the single largest loss of life for the U.S. military
since May 2009, when five U.S. troops were killed in Baghdad during a
non-combat related incident. In April 2009, six U.S. troops died -- five in
combat in the northern city of Mosul and one north of Baghdad in a
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[osint] Obama Czar Temporarily Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People

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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-regulatory-czar-backs-2003-call-ol

 

Obama Regulatory Czar Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to
Older People 

Friday, June 03, 2011 
By   Fred Lucas 

  Cass Sunstein

Cass Sunstein, director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
in the Office of Management in Budget, in the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building on March 16, 2011. (AP photo)

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama's regulatory czar has retreated from
a 2003 academic report in which he advocated that the government assign a
higher monetary value to the lives of young people than to senior citizens. 

Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, on Friday testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the Obama
administration's plans for reviewing and reducing federal regulations.

"I'm a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I'm not sure what
I think about what that young man wrote," Sunstein, 56, told the House
panel. "Things written as an academic are not a legitimate part of what we
do as a government official. So I am not focusing on sentences that a young
Cass Sunstein wrote years ago. So the answer is no."

Sunstein
 wrote
the paper when he was a professor at the University of Chicago. It was
titled "Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay."

"Many analysts, however, have suggested that the government should rely
instead on the 'value of a statistical life year' (VSLY), in a way that
would likely result in significantly lower benefits calculations for elderly
people, and significantly higher benefits calculations for children," the
2003 paper said.

"I urge that the government should indeed focus on statistical life-years
rather than statistical lives. A program that saves young people produces
more welfare than one that saves old people," it added.

Rep. Michael G. Burgess (R-Texas) expressed concerns about how the
philosophy of the paper Sunstein wrote would affect his input into the
establishment of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, part of the health
care overhaul law targeting cost reductions for Medicare.

Burgess read a comment from the paper as he held up a blown up version on
cardboard in the committee hearing room. "'Older people are treated worse
for one reason, they are older. This is not an injustice.'

"I guess the question here some people have described this as sort of the
senior death discount," Burgess said to Sunstein. "Your office that oversees
regulations, you've been doing an analysis of the upcoming Health and Human
Services rule for Independent Payment Advisory Board in light of this
philosophy."

Sunstein said the 2003 paper no longer reflects his view, as he is now
older. Further, he said his views as a law professor don't reflect his views
as a government official.

"I'm a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I'm not sure what
I think about what that young man wrote," he said. "Things written as an
academic are not a legitimate part of what we do as a government official.
So I am not focusing on sentences that a young Cass Sunstein wrote years
ago. So the answer is no."

Burgess said he would take him at his word, "But still, it does point out an
important philosophical approach, and many of us are concerned about the
Independent Payment Advisory Board right now.

"I was a physician. The difficulties I have with an Independent Payment
Advisory Board was now for the first time some central planner, maybe a very
benevolent central planner, but a central planner who's pushing data points
around on a big spread sheet in Washington, D.C. is going to be able to tell
me where to get my care, when to get my care, but most important, is when
I've had enough," Burgess said.

"That is based on when I'm old, and we are dealing with a health care
program that deals with senior citizens, that's a troubling relationship,"
Burgess added.

The 2003 Sunstein report, "Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay," said,
"In protecting safety, health, and the environment, government has
increasingly relied on cost-benefit analysis. In undertaking cost-benefit
analysis, the government has monetized risks of death through the idea of
'value of a statistical life' (VSL), currently assessed at about $6.1
million."

"Many analysts, however, have suggested that the government should rely
instead on the 'value of a statistical life year (VSLY), in a way that would
likely result in significantly lower benefits calculations for elderly
people, and significantly higher benefits calculations for children. I urge
that the government should indeed focus on statistical life-years rather
than statistical live," Sunstein's 2003 paper continued.

"A program that saves young people produces more welfare t

[osint] Mark Your Calendars: Armageddon Date Moved Up

[Beowulf]

Stupid supposition to think that Iran must make its own enriched uranium
when it can easily buy from Russia, China or North Korea.

 

B

 

6/6/11, www.ynetnews.com

 

 

  Researcher:
Iran can produce nuke within 2 months

 

Airstrikes can no longer stop nuclear program, US can do nothing short of
military occupation, says report

 

The Iranian regime is closer than ever before to creating a nuclear bomb,
according to RAND Corporation researcher Gregory S. Jones. 

 

At its current rate of uranium enrichment, Tehran could have enough for its
first bomb within eight weeks, Jones said in a report published this week.

 

He added that despite reports of setbacks in its nuclear program, the
Iranian regime is steadily progressing towards a bomb. Unfortunately, Jones
says, there is nothing the US can do to stop Tehran, short of military
occupation. 

 

The researcher based his report on recent findings by the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), published two weeks ago. Making the bomb will
take around two months, he says, because constructing a nuclear warhead is a
complicated step in the process. 

 

Jones stresses that stopping Iran will require deploying forces on the
ground, because airstrikes are no longer sufficient. The reality is that the
US and Israel have failed to keep Iran from developing a nuclear warhead
whenever it wants, Jones says. 

 

It's time to recognize that this policy has failed and decide on the
following steps, based on realistic assessment of Iranian uranium-enrichment
efforts, he adds. 

 

According to Jones, Tehran has produced 38.3 kg of uranium enriched at
19.7%. If its centrifuges continue to work at the current capacity, it will
take around two months for the Iranian regime to produce the 20 kg of
uranium enriched to 90% required for the production of a nuclear warhead.

 

###

 

[NB: Personally, I believe a sustained stand-off attack using Cruise-type
missiles carrying conventional warheads could still do the job. But that
window is closing fast, and the USA is the only country with the weapons (if
not the will) that can do it. df]

 

 

Dan Friedman
NYC



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[osint] Proper Koran Burning Procedures

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 Proper Koran Burning Procedures


 


By Ronin,
I know many will have a problem with my decision to join in on the
International koran burning day, held on September 11 but I ask that you
read all the way to the bottom before condemning it.

Plan your own koran burning party, big or small, private or not so private.
Never let another culture take away your right to express your opinion in
your own land. Use your freedoms or lose them forever. I strongly feel that
our system of self-reliance and personal freedoms is vastly superior to any
found in another country, religion or ideology.

I will burn my copy of the koran on September 11 not because I want to
offend muslims but because islam itself offends me.

If after reading this, you feel that the act of intolerance towards an
intolerant ideology lowers you to their level and you choose to not burn a
copy of the koran. I will support your right too not participate in the
event.

If you disagree with my plan or my procedures, you can save your opinion of
my efforts, as I do not care. I have owned this evil book since the 80's I
finally found a use for it.

Here are the proper koran burning procedures

Safety first. Find a safe area to build a fire

Have water and or a fire extinguisher available

Use accelerants sparingly, the koran is satan's book it will burn easily.

Books burn from the outside inward. Normally they singe around the edges and
the pages barely burn. To avoid this, wrinkle the pages and tear a few of
them. You can also turn them inside out and build a stand over your
fire-think BBQ grill and you will get the idea.

Film anyone that attempts to interrupt your right of free speech.

Arm at least one member of your party; there are kooks that consider burning
the koran as blasphemy. Just in case one attacks, you should be prepared to
defend yourself.

To avoid the misconception that burning the koran is blasphemy be prepared
to explain how the koran insults Christians and accuses Jesus as having
murdered Judas. By swapping places with Judus at the crucifixion, Jesus
essentially sent Judas to die-dooming Judas and allowing Jesus to flee.
Explain why muslims think Jesus is not now nor ever was anything other than
a mortal man. Explain the muslims believe mohammed was a better example to
follow. At this point, you should mention that a short list of mohammeds
crimes includes, slavery, murder, rape, child abuse, pedophilia and be ready
to read a few verses of the koran as proof.

Once all of the preparations are made and just before you light the fire
give this as an explanation.

As an American, I have the right to worship my faith or lack there of in the
manner that I chose. Nothing in the koran is holy to me, I reject the koran
as anything more than a simple book. A book filed with violence, intolerance
and hate. I condemn the koran to a fiery death because I am free to do so.
No ideology has more rights than I do, they are not free to enforce their
views, culture or religion on me. There are those that disagree with my
opinion of the koran and they disagree with my decision to burn a copy. That
is there right. Let them buy one and lovingly protect it if that is there
will. Here and now, I chose to burn this book as I find it offensive to my
beliefs, insulting, intolerant and incompatible with my American rights.

Light it.

Spread the ashes to ensure complete destruction.

I suggest a moment of silence for our fallen, past present and future.



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[osint] Can It Happen In America?

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Can It Happen In America?

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 10:21 PM PST

 
 

Can It Happen In America?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

The United States is projected to have a larger Muslim population by 2030
than any European countries with the exception of Russia and France,
although other European countries may have higher percentages of Muslims.
 (SOURCE)

As we watch the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak circle the drain and
consider the protests already in progress in Jordan, we Americans might do
well to ask if it can happen here.

Let's be honest. The point of the Islamic arrow is pointed at "The Great
Satan" - the United States.

The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood (Hammam Saeed) warned
Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will
topple leaders allied with the United States.

"The Americans and (President Barack) Obama must be losing sleep over the
popular revolt in Egypt," he said. "Now, Obama must understand that the
people have woken up and are ready to unseat the tyrant leaders who remained
in power because of U.S. backing. . "We tell the Americans 'enough is
enough'," he continued.
 (SOURCE)

Saeed is reported to have said that Arabs have grown disgruntled with U.S.
domination of their oil wealth, military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan,
and its support for "totalitarian" leaders in the region.

It is really a shame that all this disruption in the Middle East had to
break loose while we have Jimmy Carter II in the Oval Office!

Every conservative drawing breath today understands that a strong US with a
strong Commander-in-Chief is the only thing standing between a semi-orderly
world and world-wide chaos.

"Oh, but Longstreet! There is the United Nations?" To that I would reply by
holding my stomach and roaring a belly laugh -- running the risk, as we all
know, of herniating myself.

The United Nations is as anti-American as they come. Plus, the madmen from
the Middle East control it, almost entirely.

As to the question of whether the Islamic rioting can happen here. yes, it
can, and probably will. As the Islamic community grows in America so will
its clout. Already, the calls for Sharia law are being whispered about.

See, this is a problem for America created by our very own constitution.
Yes, I refer to the first amendment. In particular I refer to the right to
practice one's own religion. It is coming back to bite us in "the derriere."

At this point in our history, there is simply no way to amend the
constitution to outlaw the practice of certain religions in the United
States. But, I will predict, that not too far into our future we will find
it absolutely necessary to do just that and -- I am afraid - it will be too
late.

What of America's friend, Israel? She must seek new friends elsewhere. The
Obama Administration has thrown Israel under the bus.

Having been reared as an evangelical Christian - I have a deep, ingrained,
understanding of what this abandonment of Israel by Obama means for the US.
It means God's wrath will be turned against this country.

Of course, you are free to believe whatever you want. But, I am just
expressing my own belief that an accounting will be required of America for
her actions toward Israel.

Many in America believe we are already feeling the effects of "Divine
Disgust" as our country teeters on the brink of economic disaster. Whether
we like to admit it or not, America is eternally linked to Israel.

The so-called "cold peace" between Israel and Egypt is rapidly melting,
right before our eyes. Should a Muslim theocratic regime wind up in power in
Egypt, the southern threat to Israel will be renewed -- and remember, Israel
no longer has the Sinai as a buffer.

And there is the Suez Canal through which much of the world's oil must
travel. It is unsettling, to say the least, to consider the possible
choke-hold Islamic fundamentalists could have on the world's supply of oil.


Whether we want to admit it, or not, America and the free world are involved
in a Third World War for dominance of the globe. There is no end in sight.

The plain truth is -- there is no way any nation practicing any religion,
other than Islam, can exist in peace with the practioners of Islam.

The goal of the so-called religion of peace is to establish a worldwide
caliphate (kingdom) ruled by Islamic law . period! It now appears they will
accomplish their goal no matter how brutal the strategy and tactics
required.

In answer to the question posed in the title to this commentary: Yes, it can
happen here. In fact, it has already begun.

J. D. Longstreet

 



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[osint] The Koran Burner and the Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle (Revised)

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Caliph Uthman The Koran Burner and the 
Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle (Revised)


September 10th, 2010 by Andrew Bostom | 
 

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The Mass Burn Surviving Uthman’s Koran: ‘Uthman sent to every Muslim province 
one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur’anic 
materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt.

Now that the Not-So-Great-Koran-Conflagration-Kerfluffle initiated by Pastor 
Terry Jones   has apparently been 
averted—Jones claiming that the Ground Zero Mosque is being cancelled as part 
of the “deal”—let us recount the extensive Koran burning exploits of Islam’s 
Muslim Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman (d.656).

The pious Muslim narrative is summarized in a canonical Hadith from  

 Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 61, Number 510:

Narrated Anas bin Malik: Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman came to Uthman at the time when 
the people of Sham and the people of Iraq were Waging war to conquer Arminya 
and Adharbijan. Hudhaifa was afraid of their (the people of Sham and Iraq) 
differences in the recitation of the Qur’an, so he said to ‘Uthman, “O chief of 
the Believers! Save this nation before they differ about the Book (Quran) as 
Jews and the Christians did before.” So ‘Uthman sent a message to Hafsa saying, 
“Send us the manuscripts of the Qur’an so that we may compile the Qur’anic 
materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you.” Hafsa sent it 
to ‘Uthman. ‘Uthman then ordered Zaid bin Thabit, ‘Abdullah bin Az Zubair, Said 
bin Al-As and ‘AbdurRahman bin Harith bin Hisham to rewrite the manuscripts in 
perfect copies.‘Uthman said to the three Quraishi men, “In case you disagree 
with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the Qur’an, then write it in the dialect 
of Quraish, the Qur’an was revealed in their tongue.” They did so, and when 
they had written many copies, ‘Uthman returned the original manuscripts to 
Hafsa. ‘Uthman sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, 
and ordered that all the other Qur’anic materials, whether written in 
fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt. Said bin Thabit added, “A 
Verse from Surat Ahzab was missed by me when we copied the Qur’an and I used to 
hear Allah’s Apostle reciting it. So we searched for it and found it with 
Khuzaima bin Thabit Al-Ansari. (That Verse was): ‘Among the Believers are men 
who have been true in their covenant with Allah.’ (33.23)”

The great scholar of early Islam, Leone Caetani (1869-1935), published an essay 
in The Muslim World Vol. 5, 1915, pp. 380-390, (reproduced in, Ibn Warraq, The 
Origins of the Koran, Prometheus Books, 1998, pp.67-75; extracts from pp. 
69,74) entitled, “Uthman and the Rescension of the Koran,” which included these 
confirmatory observations about the rationale for assiduously gathering and 
burning essentially of the extant Korans in 650/51 A.D. Caetani’s observations 
emphasize how Uthman’s actions, which tacitly acknowledge the existence of 
Koranic “variants,” and suggest a very human origin of the text, were motivated 
by a desire to enforce the dogma of the Koran being uncreated, unchanging, the 
eternal word of Allah—a belief which persists amongst the Muslim masses to this 
day.

The official canonical redaction undertaken at Uthman’s command, was due to the 
uncertainty which reigned in reference to the text. It is clear that in 30 A.H. 
(650/51 A.D.) no official redaction existed. [Islamic] Tradition itself [i.e., 
the hadith,  

 Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 61, Number 510, above] admits that there were 
various “schools,” one in Iraq, one in Syria, one in al-Basrah, besides others 
in smaller places, and then, exaggerating in an orthodox sense this scandal, 
tries to make out that the divergences were wholly immaterial; but such 
affirmations accord ill with the opposition excited by the caliph’s act in 
al-Kufah. The official version must have contained somewhat serious 
modifications…

Uthman ordered the compilation of a single official text of the Koran, and the 
violent suppression, the destruction by fire of all the other copies existing 
in the provinces…It should be added that even if all existing copies of the 
Koran could not be traced to Uthman’s official copy, anyone who cast aspersions 
on Uthman’s action would be liable to the charge of raising doubts about the 
foundation of all Islam, for the Islamic world from one end to the other lives 
in the conviction that the text existing today represents the true, eternal, 
immutable word of God.


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[osint] Killing Christians, in the name of the Prophet

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Killing Christians, in the name of the Prophet

MICHAEL COREN

 

The bomb that killed at least 21 Egyptian Christians on New Year's morning
was packed with sharpened metal, iron balls and razor wire.

 

 Many of those that the device didn't rip to death will never see, walk or
function properly ever again. With terrorist bombs, euphemisms such as
"wounded" and "traumatized" are hideously misplaced. These are not, however,
the only banalities being tossed around when this latest attack is
discussed. Words like "rare," "surprise," and "extremist" seem similarly
absurd to those who know anything about the plight of Christians in large
chunks of the Muslim world. Remember, more than 50 Iraqi Catholics were
murdered in November; on Christmas Day in the southern Philippines on a
Muslim-dominated island a church was bombed and parishioners hurt; and in
Pakistan just weeks ago a 45year-old Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi,
was sentenced to death for "defaming the Prophet." Not bad for a little over
a month!

 

It has all become so painfully routine as to appear almost predictable. In
Pakistan, churches have been destroyed, Christians lynched, children
forcibly converted. Catholics and Anglicans have been denied jobs,
government support, housing and the most basic human rights. In Egypt, many
of the eight million Christians face daily harassment in a country of 70
million Muslims, with periodic violence - often deadly - and police
indifference, and even support, for mob attacks. One particularly sinister
aspect to the Egyptian mass persecution is the difficulty Christians now
face in obtaining exit visas, conjuring up dark echoes of previous campaign
against German and Soviet Jews.

 

In January 2000, in El-Kosheh, Egypt, another 21 Christians were killed in
rioting by local Muslims, aided by the police. When authorities eventually
reacted, they arrested more than a thousand local Christians, many of whom
were tortured. There are numerous cases of Christian girls being kidnapped
by Muslim gangs and then being forcibly converted and married to Muslim men.
If they flee these marriages and try to return to Christianity, they are
killed as apostates. Church desecration is common, as are public burnings of
Bibles and Christian literature. There are also documented cases of
Christians being ritually crucified, the rape of Christian girls and the
prolonged beating of children, some of them babies.

 

In Saudi Arabia, it is effectively illegal to be a follower of Christ. In
Iran, Christians face obvious discrimination. In the Gaza strip, they have
been attacked, a Christian bookstore bombed and Christian women threatened
with acid thrown in their faces unless they cover their heads. In Indonesia
in 2005, three Christian schoolgirls were beheaded by an Islamic gang and,
while that nation's government does often attempt to enforce the law, there
is a long history of anti-Christian hostility. Even in traditionally
tolerant Syria, Jordan and the West Bank, an increasing tendency toward
Islamic fundamentalism has made life difficult for the Christian minority.
In relatively moderate Turkey, seminaries have been closed down and priests
and nuns murdered; and in Cyprus, the occupying Turks have destroyed
numerous Christian sites and holy places.

 

Islamic apologists will point to certain Christians in positions of
influence, deny that persecution exists at all, or, more frequently, argue
that the accusations are propaganda lies told by Christians and Jews in
North America and Europe. While this may sound absurd, it is almost
impossible to overstate the degree of paranoia among many Muslims concerning
of Jews and Christians. One of the accusations made against the slaughtered
Christians in Egypt this week was that they were building up arms dumps in
their churches, and that they were agents of the United States and Israel.
Iraqi Christians fleeing to Syria are not trusted because they are seen as
being pro-Western.

 

All this in spite of the fact that Arab nationalism itself often was
initiated by young Christian intellectuals in the early 20th century and
that the Palestinian narrative was for more than a generation formed, and
certainly explained to North America and Europe, by Christians. (Indeed, the
Greek Orthodox were considered the most nationalistic and militant within
the Palestinian community.) Today, Christian towns in the West Bank are
disappearing. And while Israel's occupation has certainly destabilized the
area and made life difficult, it is Muslim discrimination and aggression
that has caused the most distress for Christians since the late 1980s. This,
of course, is far too nuanced a position for most Western supporters of
Palestine to embrace.

 

And here lies one of the main reasons why there is so little international
anger within, for example, the labour movement, social activists and liberal
churches in particular over

[osint] Sharia Law Gains Foothold in US: Federal Judge Upholds Government Funding of Islam

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Sharia Law Gains Foothold in US: Federal Judge Upholds Government Funding of 
Islam -- Thomas More Law Center Files Appeal

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

AIG - JihadistLast week, Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff, a federal district court 
judge in Michigan, dismissed a constitutional challenge to the U.S. 
Government’s bailout of AIG, which used over a hundred million dollars in 
federal tax money to support Islamic religious indoctrination through the 
funding and promotion of Sharia-compliant financing (SCF).  SCF is financing 
that follows the dictates of Islamic law. 

The challenge was brought by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national 
public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and co-counsel David 
Yerushalmi, on behalf of Kevin Murray, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraqi War. 
 TMLC filed a notice of appeal immediately after the ruling and will be seeking 
review of the decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of TMLC, commented: “Judge 
Zatkoff’s ruling allows for oil–rich Muslim countries to plant the flag of 
Islam on American soil.  His ruling ignored the uncontested opinions of several 
Sharia experts and AIG’s own website, which trumpeted Sharia-compliant 
financing as promoting the law of the Prophet Mohammed and as an ‘ethical 
product, ’ and a ‘new way of life.’ His ruling ignored AIG’s use of a foreign 
Islamic advisory board to control investing in accordance with Islamic law.”

AIG - Jihadists burning American flagContinued Thompson: “This astonishing 
decision allows the federal government as well as AIG and other Wall Street 
bankers to explicitly promote Sharia law ─ the 1200 year old body of Islamic 
canon law based on the Koran, which demands the destruction of Western 
Civilization and the United States.  This is the same law championed by Osama 
bin Laden and the Taliban; it is the same law that prompted the 9/11 Islamic 
terrorist attacks; and it is the same law that is responsible for the murder of 
thousands of Christians throughout the world.  The Law Center will do 
everything it can to stop Sharia law from rearing its ugly head in America.”

The federal lawsuit was filed in 2008 against Secretary of the Treasury Timothy 
Geithner and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  It 
challenges that portion of the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008” 
(EESA) that appropriated $70 billion in taxpayer money to fund and financially 
support the federal government’s majority ownership interest in AIG, which is 
considered the market leader in SCF.  According to the 
lawsuit, “The use of these taxpayer funds to approve, promote, endorse, 
support, and fund these Sharia-based Islamic religious 
activities violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the 
United States Constitution.”  

AIG - AIG BuildingThrough the use of taxpayer funds, the federal government 
acquired a majority ownership interest (nearly 80%) in AIG; and as part of the 
bailout, Congress appropriated $70 billion of taxpayer money to fund and 
financially support AIG and its financial activities, $47.5 billion of which 
was actually distributed to AIG.  AIG, which is now a government owned company, 
engages in SCF, which subjects certain financial activities, including 
investments, to the dictates of Islamic law and the Islamic religion. This 
specifically includes any profits or interest obtained through such financial 
activities.  AIG itself publicly describes “Sharia” as “Islamic law based on 
the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet .” 

With the aid of taxpayer funds provided by Congress, AIG also employs a 
“Shariah Supervisory Committee.”  According to AIG, the role of its Sharia 
authority “is to review our operations, supervise its development of Islamic 
products, and determine Shariah compliance of these products and our 
investments.” 

Shortly after filing the complaint in 2008, attorneys for the Obama 
administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the court to dismiss the 
lawsuit on behalf of the named defendants.  In a written opinion issued in May 
2009, the judge denied the request, holding that the lawsuit properly alleged a 
federal constitutional challenge to the use of taxpayer money to fund AIG’s 
Islamic religious activities.

In its request to dismiss the lawsuit, DOJ argued that the plaintiff, Kevin 
Murray, who is a federal taxpayer, lacked standing to bring the action.  And 
even if he did have standing, DOJ argued that the use of the bailout money to 
fund AIG’s operations did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First 
Amendment.  The court disagreed, noting, in relevant part, the following:

In this case, the fact that AIG is largely a secular entity is not dispositive: 
The question in an as-applied challenge is not whether the entity is of a 
religious character, but how it spends its grant. The cir

[osint] Incest in Islam

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Incest in Islam


 

Conclusion:

Like it or not, Incest in Islam is alive and kicking well as can be
illustrated from several verses of the Qur'an. The various interpretations,
often contradictory, just prove that these words could not be from Allah.
Allah cannot be so dim-witted not to know what is best for His Ummah. All
knowing, almighty Allah cannot be so careless that He would leave His words
in such a manner that what one group of Muslims means to be halal may be
death to another group of Muslims. The topic of incest in Islam is such a
dangerous game. It also possible that the inherent backward of the Muslim in
general might be rooted in their limited genetic pool because of incestuous
marriage practiced in many Islamic nation.

 

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[osint] slam and Inbreeding

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  Gates of Vienna

At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian
Europe.
We are in a new phase of a very old war.

 


Tuesday, August 10, 2010


  Islam
and Inbreeding


Nicolai Sennels’ latest essay concerns the deleterious effects of cousin
marriage within the Muslim world, and the impact the practice is having in
Western countries with large numbers of Muslim immigrants.



http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/08/islam-and-inbreeding.html

 




Muslim Inbreeding: Impacts on intelligence, sanity, health and society

by Nicolai Sennels

Massive inbreeding within the Muslim culture during the last 1.400 years may
have done catastrophic damage to their gene pool. The consequences of
intermarriage between first cousins often have serious impact on the
intelligence, sanity, and health of their offspring, and on their
surroundings.

Ramses IIThe most famous example of inbreeding is in ancient Egypt, where
several Pharaonic dynasties collapsed after lasting for several hundred
years. In order to keep wealth and power within the family, the Pharaohs
often married their own sisters or half-sisters, and after a handful of
generations offspring were mentally and physically unfit to rule. Another
historical example is the royal houses of Europe in which royal families
often married among themselves because tradition did not allow them to marry
people of a non-royal class. The high number of mentally retarded and
handicapped members of royalty throughout European history shows the
unhealthy consequences of this practice. Fortunately, royal families now
allow themselves to marry for love and not just for status.

Muslim culture still practices inbreeding and has been doing so for longer
than any Egyptian dynasty. This practice also predates the world’s oldest
monarchy (the Danish) by 300 years.

A rough estimate shows that close to half of all Muslims in the world are
inbred: In Pakistan, 70 percent of all marriages are between first cousins
(so-called “consanguinity”) and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30
percent ( 
Jyllands-Posten, 27/2/2009 “More stillbirths among immigrants”). Statistical
research on Arabic countries shows that up to 34 percent of all marriages in
Algiers are consanguine (blood-related), 46 percent in Bahrain, 33 percent
in Egypt, 80 percent in Nubia (southern Egypt), 60 percent in Iraq, 64
percent in Jordan, 64 percent in Kuwait, 42 percent in Lebanon, 48 percent
in Libya, 47 percent in Mauritania, 54 percent in Qatar, 67 percent in Saudi
Arabia, 63 percent in Sudan, 40 percent in Syria, 39 percent in Tunisia, 54
percent in the United Arabic Emirates and 45 percent in Yemen (

Reproductive Health Journal, 2009 “Consanguinity and reproductive health
among Arabs”). The number of blood-related marriages is lower among Muslim
immigrants living in the West. Among Pakistanis living in Denmark the amount
is down to 40 percent and 15 percent among Turkish immigrants (
 Jyllands-Posten, 27/2
2009 “More stillbirths among immigrants”). More than half of Pakistani
immigrants living in Britain are intermarried: “The research, conducted by
the BBC and broadcast to a shocked nation on Tuesday, found that at least
55% of the community was married to a first cousin. This is thought to be
linked to the probability that a British Pakistani family is at least 13
times more likely than the general population to have children with
recessive genetic disorders.” (

Times of India, 17/11 2005 “Ban UK Pakistanis from marrying cousins”). The
lower percentages might be because it is difficult to get the chosen family
member into the country, or because health education is better in the West.

Intelligence

Several studies show that children of consanguineous marriages have lower
intelligence than children of non-related parents. Research shows that the
IQ is 10-16 points lower in children born from related parents and that
abilities related to social behavior develop more slowly in inbred babies:
“Effects of parental consanguinity on the cognitive and social behavior of
children have been studied among the Ansari Muslims of Bhalgapur, Bihar. IQ
in inbred children (8-12 years old) is found to be lower (69 in rural and 79
in suburban populations) than that of the outbred ones (79 and 95
respectively). The onset of various social profiles like visual fixation,
social smile, sound seizures, oral expression and hand-grasping are
significantly delayed among the new-born inbred babies.” (
  [pdf] Indian National Science Academy, 1983 “Consanguinity Effects on
Intelligence

[osint] Palestinian Terrorists Charged with Slaughter of Fogel Family

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By YAAKOV LAPPIN
05/06/2011



"I'm proud of what I did...I did it all for Palestine," one of the suspects
says during an appearance in court, "I would do it again."

 


 


Two Palestinian youths from the West Bank village of Awarta, arrested in
April on suspicion of murdering five members of the Fogel family
  in
Itamar, were charged with five counts of homicide at a military court on
Sunday. 

The defendants, 17-year-old Hakim Awad and 18-year-old Amjad Awad, who are
from the same clan, have confessed to stabbing and shooting two young
brothers, their parents, and a three-month-old baby in the attack. 



"I don't regret what I did, and would do it again," Amjad Awad told
reporters in court. "I'm proud of what I did and I'll accept any punishment
I get, even death, because I did it all for Palestine," he added. 

The charge sheet detailed how the two saw two young brothers sleeping in
their beds, 4-year-old Elad and 11-year-old Yoav, snuck into the home, and
stabbed them both to death. 

They then entered the parents' bedroom, where they launched a knife attack
on Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents fought back, attempting to fend off the
attackers. Ehud died of stab wounds and Ruth was shot dead by the attackers
with a stolen M-16 gun. 

The two then left the house, before  hearing cries from three-month-old baby
Hadas. Awoken by the attack, the baby lay in its crib in the parents'
bedroom.

"They went back into the house and stabbed the baby to death to silence her
cries," a security source said following the arrests in April.



 



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[osint] The Gaza Flotillas to Come: Some Ground Rules before Setting Out

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by   

 Alan Baker

Published June 2011

Vol. 11, No. 3   5 June 2011

 

The  

 Gaza Flotillas to Come:

Some Ground Rules before Setting Out

 

Alan Baker

 

*   An ostensibly civilian, humanitarian flotilla was employed in May 2010 
to demonstratively breach the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza coast. This 
flotilla was organized by the Turkish IHH, which has extensive links to extreme 
Islamic terror groups. Provoking a confrontation with Israel continues to be 
the primary aim.

 

*   Since May 2010, the Israeli government has altered the manner in which 
it administers the limitations on the transfer of goods to Gaza. It now 
specifically prohibits only those materials that might be taken and directed by 
 

 Hamas and other terror groups in furtherance of their hostile purposes.

 

*   There is no humanitarian emergency among the civilian population in 
Gaza, and hence there can be no justification for conveying emergency shipments 
intended to alleviate an emergency that clearly does not exist. Any genuine 
wish to provide materials to the Gaza population can be directed through 
Israeli ports and the relevant authorities.

 

*   Hamas routinely fires missiles randomly at Israeli civilian targets. 
Thus a situation of ongoing armed conflict exists between Hamas and Israel, 
which has the prerogative to institute a naval and land blockade to prevent the 
introduction of weapons and materials that could serve belligerent purposes. 
Such a blockade is well established in international law and practice.

 

*   It is internationally accepted that any attempt to breach such a 
blockade may be prevented by Israeli naval patrols. Such a process may take 
place outside the area of the blockade if the declared intention of the 
flotilla is to violate the blockade. Furthermore, any vessel refusing to 
respond to the demands of the naval forces may be stopped forcefully.


Aiming to Provoke a Confrontation 

Since the May 2010 wave of "flotillas" organized by Turkish and other groups, 
ostensibly conveying cargoes of vital and indispensible aid intended to reach 
the population of Gaza, much has been written and televised as to the real 
intentions of the organizers.  Additionally, several enquiries have been 
instituted in order to analyze the legal, military, and other aspects of the 
flotilla affair and the way it was handled. 

What seems to have been made very clear by the groups that organized the 
flotilla, especially the Turkish-led IHH terror-related organization, is the 
fact that the use of an ostensibly civilian, humanitarian flotilla and a huge 
PR campaign in order to demonstratively breach the Israeli naval blockade of 
the Gaza coast and thereby challenge Israel's policy regarding the Gaza Strip 
and provoke a confrontation with Israel, was clearly and continues to be the 
primary aim. 

Conveying humanitarian goods to what was represented as a distressed Gaza 
population was a minor, secondary, and perhaps even incidental aim, at least 
among the most vocal participants in the flotilla, although there were indeed 
some who participated out of a bona fide belief in the importance of 
identifying themselves with, and trying to alleviate what they genuinely 
thought to be, a humanitarian crisis among the residents of Gaza. 

The regrettable outcome of the May 2010 flotilla and the extensive 
international echo that still reverberates throughout the international 
community have nevertheless brought about a series of changes in the "situation 
on the ground." 

The logic and aim of Israel's blockade is to prevent the Hamas terror 
organization presently administering Gaza from acquiring arms, ammunition, and 
other supplies that could contribute to hostile activities against Israel. 
Since May 2010, the Israeli government has altered the manner in which it 
administers the limitations on the transfer of goods to Gaza. It now 
specifically prohibits only those materials that might be taken and directed by 
Hamas and other terror groups in furtherance of their hostile purposes. 

Furthermore, since the May 2010 flotilla incident and in light of the 
considerable publicity that has been given to the daily flow of goods and 
supplies into the Gaza Strip, it has become very clear to all that there is no 
humanitarian crisis in Gaza and all essential and other provisions are 
available to all residents. 

On the other hand, the practical military and tactic

[osint] Russia tried to blow up U.S. Embassy in Georgia

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The Washington Post: Russia tried to blow up U.S. Embassy in Georgia

   

The Washington Post published an article about ongoing attempts by Russia to
destabilize Georgia and wrong policies of the administration of Obama, who,
according to the paper, encourages Russian violence against Georgia. The
newspaper points out
  that the US explicitly condones
Russian in this political game, despite the fact that Russia really
threatens the US interests. Moreover, as the newspaper writes, Russia was
planning to blow up the US Embassy in Georgia in 2010, but the terrorist
attack was uncovered in time. 

  

Today, as indicated by the newspaper, Russia is not only going to curtail
terrorist activity against Georgia, but on the contrary - new plans, which
should, according to Moscow, topple the power of Georgian president
Saakashvili, are being developed. Against this background, the Obama
administration is still building a rainbow of hope for a "reset", while
Russia, as it seems, is not interested in any "reset", but waits for a right
moment to stage another attack against Georgia. In this regard, a number of
Western experts believe that after the so-called "olympic games" in the
Russian-occupied Muslim city of Sochi in 2014, Russia could launch another
attack on Georgia with the intention to finally solve the "Georgian
question". 

  

In turn, The Washington Post recalled that Georgia has detained two
suspects, who prepared the blast on orders from Russia. Police arrested a
man and a woman with explosives in the western part of the country. "They
confessed that they were ordered by Russian officers to set off explosions
on the Georgian territory," a spokesman of Georgian police, Shota
Utiashvili, told AFP. 

  

In recent months, Georgian police have detained a series of suspects for
setting off bombs or planning attacks on behalf of the Russian military
intelligence. 

Three men were accused of trying to blow up government buildings in
Georgia's second-largest city of Kutaisi in March, while several more
suspects were detained on suspicion of staging blasts last year near
strategic targets, including the US embassy in Tbilisi. 

  

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) as well as other
lawmakers and foreign policy experts have complained that the
administration's "reset" policy toward Russia consists largely of acceding
to Russian demands with no corresponding progress in Russian human rights or
conduct toward its neighbors. 

  

In the case of Georgia (whose requests for defensive weapons have been
rebuffed by the United States) the imbalance has a particularly perverse
result. Russia continues to occupy Georgia, promote violence and disregard
admonitions about its human rights abuses at home. Meanwhile, Georgia just
sent an additional 625 troops to supplement U.S. Marines fighting in Helmand
province in Afghanistan, making Georgia the largest non-NATO troop
contributor to the mission in Afghanistan. It certainly seems that our
Democratic ally is getting the worse end of the deal here, the senators
complain. 

  

(The disregard of the interests of American Democratic allies in pursuit of
better relations with thugocracies is not an infrequent feature of the
bloody Obama's regime) 

Department of Monitoring 

Kavkaz Center 

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[osint] Mosques as Barracks in America

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June 5, 2011 


Mosques as Barracks in America


By   Andrew G. Bostom

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan represents the triumphant Janus-faced
approach to the fundamentalist global "Islamic revival." He and his pious
forbears have now completed dismantling Turkey's secular experiment, and
achieved the full-throated re-Islamization of Turkish society, an insidious
process
 begun
already within the decade after Ataturk's death, in 1938.  When currying
favor with gullible Western audiences, Erdogan burbles disingenuous
ecumenical platitudes about the "Alliance of Civilizations." But in reality,
this is an

Islamization campaign promoted by the Organization of the Islamic
Conference, notably Saudi Arabia, which

rewarded Erdogan, for his role in the Alliance, specifically, as "services
to Islam," with the "King Faisal International Prize," considered the "Nobel
prize" of the Arab world. Regardless, Erdogan has always aroused his Muslim
constituencies by brazenly appealing to their deep-seated jihadist
sentiments as he did while mayor of Istanbul, in 1997, delivering a fiery
speech that reminded the masses of these words from the  poem "The Soldier's
Prayer," written (in 1912) by Turkish nationalist poet Ziya Gokalp: 

The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our
barracks and the faithful our army.

 

Cited appropriately by
 successful opponents of minaret construction in

Switzerland, such rhetoric should now resonate uncomfortably in America with
the   online release Monday June 6, 2011 of
alarming survey data from a representative national sample of US mosques. 

 During August 2007, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released
"Radicalization in the West - The Homegrown Threat." This insightful 90-page
 report evaluated the threat that had become
apparent since 9/11/2001, analyzing the roots of recent terror plots in the
United States, from Lackawanna in upstate New York to Portland, Ore., to
Fort Dix, NJ. Based upon these case-study analyses of individuals arrested
for jihadist activity, the authors
 concluded that the "journey" of
radicalization that produces homegrown jihadists began in so-called
"Salafist" ("fundamentalist" to non-Muslims) mosques characterized by high
levels of Sharia-Islamic Law-adherence. The landmark study just published,
"Sharia and Violence in American Mosques" (Kedar M, Yerushalmi D. The Middle
East Quarterly, Summer 2011, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 59-72) sought to expand
considerably upon the NYPD's post-hoc, case study
 approach-systematically gathering objective
survey data, with much greater methodological rigor-and address these two a
priori questions: I) Is there a robust association between observable
measures of religious devotion, coupled to Sharia-adherence in US mosques,
and the presence of violence-sanctioning materials at these mosques?; and
II) Is there a robust association between the presence of
violence-sanctioning materials at a mosque, and the advocacy of jihadism by
the mosque's leadership via recommending the study of these materials, or
other manifest behaviors?

Full details of the sampling methodology, extracts of representative
 jihad promoting materials
(texts), and specific Sharia-compliant behaviors recorded, are provided in
the accompanying appendices, reproduced from the full study (which will be
available   here 6/6/11). In brief, survey data
were collected from a nationally representative, random statistical sample
of 100 US mosques, covering 14 states, and the District of Columbia. This
concise overview of the basic data collection procedures-including a
self-critical, honest caveat by the authors about "completeness" of the
available information on US mosque locations-is reproduced verbatim from the
report (p. 68): 

A surveyor visited a subject mosque in order: (a) to observe and record 12
Sharia-adherent behaviors of the worshipers and the imam (or lay leade

[osint] Oil redeems Israel

[Beowulf]

Actually, it doesn’t.

B

 
 


Lawrence Solomon: Oil redeems Israel


·  

  Lawrence Solomon
Jun 3, 2011 – 7:12 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 4, 2011 6:37 PM ET

 


AFP

An oil drilling site at Tamrur cliff in the southern Israeli city of Arad in
the Dead Sea area.

Huge strike will bring back a world bought by oil interests

Prior to the 1973-74 OPEC Oil Crisis, Israel was the darling of the left,
extolled as a feisty, altruistic country that made socialism work in a
hostile neighbourhood of Arab military dictatorships and Muslim theocracies.
The liberal press defended Israel against those who objected to Israel’s
existence. The liberal intelligentsia — Jew and non-Jew alike — sent their
youth to Israeli kibbutzes, to be inspired by this utopian model of communal
life where all received the same wage, regardless of occupation.

Almost immediately after the OPEC nations quadrupled oil prices to punish
the West for its support of Israel, the left turned, along with many in the
center and on the right, too. Israel soon became a pariah state, while the
Palestine Liberation Organization, whose airplane hijackings and other acts
of terrorism against Western targets had previously drawn condemnation,
became praiseworthy.

In 1974, PLO leader Yasser Arafat assumed statesman status and was invited
to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. One more year
and the UN General Assembly branded Zionism as a form of racism.

Oil wasn’t the only factor in the world’s change of attitude toward Israel.
In that hyper-ideological Cold War period, anti-capitalists and
anti-colonialists wanted the West and its allies out of the Middle East,
others wanted to appease Arab grievances to end terrorism, or they
sympathized with the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab states that had lost
wars to Israel. But oil was decisive in causing the world to reconsider
where its interests lay.

Take black African countries, most of whom had excellent relations with
Israel prior to OPEC. Though Israel was itself poor when it began its aid
program in 1958, 10 years after its founding, Israel became the world’s
second-largest per-capita donor of foreign aid, most of it for Africa.
Israelis felt pride in having helped an estimated 250,000 Africans by
transferring to them technologies in which Israel excelled, such as in
agricultural and water management.

But Israel’s relationship with black Africa would not survive the OPEC oil
embargo because the Arabs had a persuasive case to make. “Join us in our
fight against Western imperialism and colonialism by cutting off diplomatic
relations with Israel,” OPEC asked black African nations. “If you do, we
will supply you with cheap oil and more aid for roads and other
infrastructure than the Israelis give you. And if you don’t cut off
relations with Israel,” they made clear, “we will cut off your oil, just as
we cut off the West.”

The black African countries, almost en masse, cut off relations with Israel
and formed an Islamic-African voting bloc, buttressed with other so-called
“non-aligned nations” that would vote against Israel at every turn in the
United Nations. It is this voting bloc of now more than 100 nations of the
192 in the UN — known today as the “automatic majority” — that in 1975
passed the United Nations resolution branding Zionism as a form of racism,
and whose members would systematically condemn Israel and almost no one else
for human rights abuses: Israel has been condemned by the United Nation’s
Human Rights Commission 33 times compared to zero for countries such as
Iran, Zimbabwe, or even Sudan, despite its decades-long atrocities in
Darfur.

The left and the African countries weren’t alone in turning on Israel — they
also had allies in the oil multinationals. Nationalization by Third World
countries of multinational assets had already begun by 1973, and the oil
companies knew that their dealings throughout the Middle East were at risk
if they were seen to be hostile to the Arab street. To head off the backlash
that they faced, the oil multinationals lobbied Western governments to turn
on Israel. In an ad for The New York Times, for example, Mobil Oil urged
that it was “time now for the world to insist on a settlement in the Middle
East” to avoid the wrath of the Arab oil states, a message it also sent to
its shareholders. In concert, Exxon and other multinationals likewise argued
that the West had far greater interests in a secure oil supply than in a
tiny patch of oil-less land called Israel.

This anti-Israeli coalition succeeded brilliantly in rebranding Israel as a
pariah state, to the satisfaction of the oil multinationals. Although their
asset

[osint] Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Calls For Adoption of "Islamic Constitution"

[Beowulf]

 

 

- The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report - http://globalmbreport.org -

Tunisian Islamist Linked to Muslim Brotherhood Calls For Adoption of
"Islamic Constitution"

Posted By GlobalMB On March 11, 2008 @ 9:18 pm In Daily | No Comments <> 

Speaking at an event organized by an Indian Islamist party Rachid Ghannoushi
(Aka Rachid Ghannouchi), often associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, has
called on the Muslim world to adopt the "Charter of Madinah", also known as
the Constitution of Medina. According to the report
  [1] of an Indian
Muslim source:

Time has come for the Muslim world, prepared by Prophet Muhammad 1400 years
ago, in its entirety, said Tunisian Islamic scholar Sheikh Rashid Ghannoushi
in New Delhi yesterday. Addressing a program organized by Jamaat-e-Islami
Hind on 27th February, Sheikh Ghannoushi, who is the leader of the Islamic
Movement of Tunisia, said the charter was relevant today to face the
challenges confronting Muslims across the globe. He said after migrating to
Madinah, the Prophet prepared the charter in which equal rights and duties
were assigned to all citizens of the Islamic State of Madinah - polytheists,
Jews, Christians and Muslims. Jews, however, were expelled later from the
state because they had violated the charter. He said a movement could
succeed only when it accepted multiplicity of religions, cultures and
civilizations. For Muslim minorities, who constitute one third of the entire
Muslim Ummah, there are only three ways open: first that they adopt the
ideology of division of state into Muslim and non-Muslim population; second,
surrender themselves before the majority, and third, participate with
non-Muslims. Of these three options, the last one will help Muslims to enjoy
their rights, said Sheikh Ghannoushi. The other two options may push them to
confrontation with the world or undignified life, said he who is living in
London in exile.

Ghannouchi is the leader in-exile of the Tunisian Islamist movement known as
Nahada (aka Ennahda, Al Nahda) and can best be described as an independent
Islamist power center who is tied to the global Muslim Brotherhood by his
membership   [2] in the European Council
for Fatwa and Research led by Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. He is
also one of the founding members of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth
(WAMY), a Saudi organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and
dedicated to the propagation of "Wahabist" Islam throughout the world.
Ghannouchi is know for his thinking
  [3] on
the issue of Islam and citizenship rights. The Medina charter is often cited
by Brotherhod figures as an example of the democratic nature of Islam. It is
not clear whether or not the reference to Jews in the statement was said in
an anti-Semitic context.

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[osint] Muslim Propaganda: Islamophobia rising in America due to 'political' reasons

[Beowulf]

  USA/Islamophobia: Islamophobia rising in
America due to 'political' reasons


BY 

  IINA

 - JUNE 5, 2011POSTED IN:   ARTICLES
http://iina.me/wp_en/?p=1003313

WASHINGTON, 4 Rajab/June 5 (Agencies/IINA) - Director of Washington-based
CAIR National Communications, Ibrahim Hooper says the rise of 'anti-Muslim
sentiment' in America has 'political' reasons.

There are a number of 'rightwing politicians and activists' who are pushing
anti-Muslim sentiment in America for their own 'political games', Hooper
told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Saturday.

"The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in our society is being generated by a
cottage industry of Muslim bashers and Islamophobic groups," he said.

Nearly a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new wave of bigotry and
discrimination is affecting the everyday lives of many Muslim Americans, a
Justice Department official and Muslim leaders has said.

Thomas E. Perez , the U.S. Justice Department's assistant attorney general
for civil rights described "a headwind of intolerance" burdening many Muslim
communities in this country, including "fear of violence, of bigotry and
hate." sikhphilosophy.net

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C.,
says that "Muslim Americans are increasingly facing unjust acts of
discrimination and prejudice". sikhphilosophy.net

In one instance, in November 2010, a Sacramento man beat up a Sikh cab
driver because he thought that he was Muslim. The man is now sentenced to 13
years in prison.

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[osint] Six-Day-War Revisionist History

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 Six-Day-War Revisionist History

Jun 05, 2011 08:53 am | Jeff Dunetz

 

 
 

"The Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive," says
Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to
return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence
of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that land. We
fought to open its gates to our brethren. We acted from an instinct to save
the soul of a people." 

Both the land and the soul of Israel are sorely tried. Last week, 19 years
after the Diaspora dream of return to Zion became a reality in the first
Jewish state in almost 2,000 years, Levi Eshkol and his people found
themselves besieged and threatened as few nations have ever been in their
history. Tiny, dagger-shaped Israel, whose 2,700,000 people cling to 7,993
sq. mi. on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, faced the implacable
hostility and cocked guns of 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people.
Its borders were ringed with Arab troops on all sides; its important sea
access through the Gulf of Aqaba remained blocked by Egyptian mines and
patrol boats.

 
 Time Magazine June 9th 1967

 
 

 

Reading reports about the Six-Day-War from 44-years ago and comparing them
to today reminds me of one of those Star Trek episodes where Kirk and the
crew goes back in history and change the past---it seems like two different
wars.

Forty-four years ago the reports spoke of the underdog Israel and her need
to defend herself against the warlike acts of the big bullies lead by Egypt
who was committing many acts that could be interpreted as acts of war
including: conspiring with other belligerent countries  for a coordinated
attack (in this case, Syria and Jordan), closing Israel's access to
international waterways (the straits of Tiran), violating the terms of the
1956 armistice by re-militarizing the Sinai. Expelling the UN and USA
peace-keeping troops form the Sinai, perpetrating illegal spy-plane
fly-overs to reconnoiter Israeli sensitive areas and massing troops and
tanks on Israel's borders.


 
 


(Dewy Beats Truman?)

The United States tried to prevent the war through negotiations, but the
other side did not want peace, The US could not persuade Nasser or the other
Arab states to cease their belligerent statements and actions (back then
they tried). So just like today,  they warned Israel not to attack. Right
before the war, President Johnson warned: "Israel will not be alone unless
it decides to go alone." Then, when the war began, the State Department
announced: "Our position is neutral in thought, word and deed."

While the Arabs were falsely accusing the United States of airlifting
supplies to Israel, Johnson imposed an arms embargo on the region (France,
Israel's other main arms supplier, also embargoed arms to Israel). By
contrast, the Soviets were supplying massive amounts of arms to the Arabs.
Simultaneously, the armies of Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were
contributing troops and arms to the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian fronts.

Today, retrospectives tell a different story, the tale of the cynical
Zionist nation whe saw an opportunity to deal a blow to the Arab nation,
expand her territory, and rule over the Palestinian people. Some even say
that maybe the Six Day War was not the best thing for Israel, "since it lead
her to become the evil rogue nation she is today"

But there is one indisputable fact that today's revisionist historians keeps
forgetting, if Israel didn't fight and win the Six Day War---there would be
no Israel today. Just as if Israel doesn't protect herself from the likes of
Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah today--there will be no Israel in 44  years.

In the immediate aftermath of the war, Israel offered to give everything
except Jerusalem back in exchange for peace. Rather than respond to Israel's
invitation, the Arab states met in Khartoum, Sudan, for a conference in
August, 1967. They unanimously decided in favor of the now famous three
"NOs," better that Israel hold on to the territories taken in the war.
Better that the refugees continue languishing in their squalor and misery.
Better that the Arab states re-arm for another war.than to recognize
Israel's right to exist or negotiate toward a peaceful settlement of the
conflict. For most of the Middle East, the rule is still the three "NOs": No
recognition, No negotiation, No peace.

On 6/5/1967, in a pre-dawn rai

[osint] Refugees Are the New 'Palestinian Nuclear Weapon'

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[osint] So the price for the bail out of Greece includes facilitating jihad.

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Excerpt 

 

One of the criteria required of Greece was to change the definition of its 
“border areas” so as to allow more foreign purchase of real estate. In 
particular, some of the islands in the Aegean coast area were reclassified so 
that Turks could buy property there.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-652011.html

 

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We are in a new phase of a very old war.


Sunday, June 05, 2011


 

 Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/5/2011


 Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/5/2011 
 Protesters occupied the 
Ministry of Finance building in downtown Athens, took down the EU flag, 
prevented employees from entering, and called for a general strike. All this 
occurred just as the “troika” — the EU, the ECB, and the IMF — announced that 
Greece had met its austerity requirements and would receive the next €12 
billion tranche of bailout loans. One of the criteria required of Greece was to 
change the definition of its “border areas” so as to allow more foreign 
purchase of real estate. In particular, some of the islands in the Aegean coast 
area were reclassified so that Turks could buy property there.

Meanwhile, Moody’s further downgraded its ratings for eight Greek banks.

In other news, bean sprouts are now considered to be the most likely source for 
the E. coli bacteria that caused the current outbreak in Europe, which has 
killed at least 22 people.

To see the headlines and the articles, open  
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[osint] Georgia foils Russian-backed bomb plot

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Georgia foils Russian-backed bomb plot

Georgia said Thursday it had arrested two suspects who were planning to
detonate bombs in the ex-Soviet state under orders from arch-foe Russia. 

  

Police arrested a man and a woman in possession of explosives in the west of
the country, the interior ministry said. 

  

"They have confessed that they were ordered by Russian officers to set off
explosions on Georgian territory," ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told
AFP. 

  

In recent months, Georgian police have detained a series of suspects for
allegedly setting off bombs or planning attacks on behalf of the Russian
military intelligence. 

  

Three men were accused of trying to blow up state buildings in Georgia's
second-largest city of Kutaisi in March, while several more suspects were
held on suspicion of staging blasts last year near targets, including the US
embassy in Tbilisi. 

  

Political tensions between the Kremlin and the pro-Western administration in
Tbilisi have remained high since the ex-Soviet neighbours went to war in
2008. 

  

The high-profile arrests came on the day that Russian Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin visited Georgia's rebel region of Abkhazia, which Tbilisi
says has been "occupied" by Moscow's troops since the 2008 conflict. 

  

The interior ministry said the latest bomb plot suspects were residents of
Abkhazia and the Russian military intelligence officers who allegedly
ordered the attack were also based there. 

  

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011


  Ward Churchill to Get Hearing From
Colorado Supreme Court


Gary Fouse
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Ex-Professor Ward Churchill
A picture is worth a thousand words.



Misfit ex-professor Ward Churchill is back in the news again, unfortunately,
now that the Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case against the
University of Colorado for firing him 4 years ago. The below report comes
from the Denver Post.

 
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18175567

Churchill sprang into notoriety after 9-11, when he called the victims in
the World Trade Center "little Eichmann's". However, it wasn't that that got
him fired. The university determined that he had committed plagiarism in
some of his writings. That is a big no-no in academia.

Of course, no one really knows how this joker became a professor in the
first place. Like singer Wayne Newton, he is pretty much a one-trick pony
(Dankeschoen). Anything connected to America and capitalism is bad. This is
what Colorado University students were exposed to in Churchill's classes.
("Power to the People and "America sucks").


Of course, Churchill isn't the only misfit professor in academia. In
contrast, they pretty much grow like weeds in the humanities, history,
political science and especially in these mushrooming Middle Eastern Studies
departments. (Thank you, Saudi Arabia.)

The other issue deserving of mention here is tenure. Once these clowns
acquire tenure, it is very hard to get rid of them. The other is freedom of
speech or academic freedom, which applies liberally to teachers but not so
liberally to students who have different points of view.

What Churchill said about the "little Eichmann's" was, indeed, protected by
the principle of academic freedom. In other universities, you will find
professors who think the Holocaust was a myth, 9-11 was an inside job, and
the moon is made of green cheese. These loons are in classrooms as we speak
spreading their garbage-or better yet, sitting in their offices doing
"research" while graduate assistants with similar ideas actually teach the
classes. That is the benefit of being a tenured professor. Many universities
would actually prefer you do research and publish "stuff" rather than
actually be in the classroom.

None of which I have to worry about. First of all, I am no professor, don't
even have a PhD. Tenure? Hardly. I am an adjunct reacher at UC-Irvine, which
is a fancy term for part-time teacher. I work on a quarterly contract, which
has been renewed for 13 years since I am pretty much a part of the family at
the UCI-Ext (not the UCI Administration). I don't carry my beliefs into the
classroom, and I actually teach my classes personally. Any research I have
done is on my own time and dime. As for free speech, I have to say that UCI
has respected my exercise of free speech at campus events like the annual
Muslim Student Union's circus and what I say in public or here
onFousesquawk. As any regular reader of this blog knows, I have often
criticized UCI, other UC campuses, and the current UC president. I have not
been punished in any way.

Ward Churchill was and is an ideologue who brought embarrassment to CU
because of what he said and according to the university itself, his
plagiarized writings. In my opinion, CU was correct in getting rid of this
clown. I hope the Colorado Supreme Court feels likewise

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[osint] French Political Cuisine

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SUNDAY, JUNE 05, 2011


  French
Political Cuisine


Philippe Karsenty, "the worst nightmare of the French media outlets"
Written by Nurit Greenger, from the original speech, as was delivered by Mr.
Philippe Karsenty
June 4, 2011

Philippe Karsenty, is a French national of the Jewish faith, who is well
known for, so obstinately, standing up to France 2 TV Channel news when they
reported a hoax story about Mohamed al Dura, an Arab-"Palestinian" they
claimed the Israeli army killed. Mr. Karsenty won his case and truth
prevailed.
Mr. Karsenty is now seeking to be elected to the French Parliament. I cannot
think of a better than Mr. Karsenty, an honest, freedom loving person to
take ranks in the French political arena. On May 12, 2011 Mr. Karsenty
delivered a speech to Temple Of the Arts congregation, in Beverly Hills
California, which I attended. I am gladly sharing with my readers Mr.
Karsenty's speech:
"Mohammed al Dura was a little boy who, at the beginning of the Arab
2ndIntifada against Israel, France 2, the French public TV, showed dying in
his father’s arms, shot and killed by the Israeli army.
This picture became an icon, an icon of hatred to the State of Israel.
Osama Bin Laden used it; American Journalist Daniel Pearl was killed to
avenge the killing of Mohammed al Dura.
Most or all the Muslim countries have erected monuments, named streets and
issued postage stamps to commemorate Mohammed al Dura’s death.
But there is a greater problem: this report was a hoax; it was purely a
staged scene.
For having said and published that it was a hoax, I’ve been sued for libel
but have won the case.
But today, the talk is about French and Middle East policies.
I first want to say few words about my personal experience in French
politics, then I will give an update about French politics regarding the
Middle East and lastly, I will explain why I am running for elections to the
French parliament.
My personal experience of French politics
I met Nicholas Sarkozy in 2002. At that time he was not even a minister.
Sarkozy then told me: “The Golan is Syrian.”
I told him, "I disagree."
We agreed that we disagreed.
So, Sarkozy challenge me: “If you disagree with me, run against me.”
I did but I lost.
At around the same time, I, with some other people, discovered the al Dura
hoax.
I immediately understood that wrong politics are based on wrong information.
Lies in the media influence politician and then, they make wrong policies.
So, I fought on al Dura and I won the trials against France 2 and Canal+, a
French private TV which slandered me in a 52 minutes documentary, designed
to support the al Dura hoax.
I’m proud to say that now, I’m the worst nightmare of the French media
outlets.
French politics regarding the Middle East
France is a military dwarf but it is an important country to watch out for
because France can be a big troublemaker:
France has a permanent seat at the UN,
France has the 2nd largest diplomatic network,
France has an impact on world politics, and
France had a historical role in the Middle East.
French politicians have always been very close to Arab dictators. Charles De
Gaulle was terrible in this aspect. Valéry Giscard and FrancoisMitterrand
were bad. Jacques Chirac was the worst; he, liked, too much, dead Jews. He
spent his mandate to commemorate the Holocaust in order to have a blank
check to blame Israel whenever he could and wanted.
Some people had great hopes on Nicholas Sarkozy but he is has been very
disappointing. Sarkozy didn’t do and is not doing much better than his
predecessors. Sarkozy always had nice words for Israel but nothing has
really changed in the grand picture. The Quai d’Orsay – French Foreign
Affairs - still has the power and they still follow the Politique Arabe de
la France. As soon as he was elected, Sarkozy invited the Hezbollah to
Paris; in 2007, Gadhafi was invited to Paris, as a guest of honor; Bashar al
Assad of Syria was also a guest of honor in Paris for the Bastille Day of
2008.
Recently, France has sold anti-tank missiles to the Lebanese Army. Whose
tanks will the Lebanese Army target?
And on a more personal level, after I won my al-Dura trial, as a real slap
on my face and on Jews' faces, Sarkozy offered the Legion of Honor to
Charles Charles Enderlin, the French journalist responsible of the al Dura
hoax.
I have two questions:
Is Obama good?
Do you think Sarkozy is better?
So, let’s talk about Sarkozy’s lasted decisions's record:
Last February, when the USA vetoed at UN on the condemnation of “Israel's
colonization”, Sarkozy voted in favor.
When the USA opposed the 

[osint] Muslim women take whore lessons.

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 Shocker: UK Muzzies Promote Jihad in Universities


 
 Muslim women take whore lessons.


So let me break this down. Muslim men cannot be trusted, blame their women,
the women agree with the untrustworthy men and prostitute themselves. Sounds
more than a little stupid to me.

June 6, 2011, AFP
A group of Malaysian women launched an "Obedient Wife Club" on Saturday,
urging members to be "whores in bed" and obey their husbands to curb social
ills such as divorce and domestic violence.
-Hate to break it to ya babe but violence and islam go together like obama
and lying, the two can never be separated.

Islamic group Global Ikhwan held the club's inaugural meeting in Kuala
Lumpur, giving women tips on how to keep their men satisfied and prevent
them from straying.

"A good wife is perceived to be prim and proper - you just take care of the
children - but not much is emphasised on fulfilling sexual needs of the
husband. If he needs sex, obey him," Rohaya Mohamad, the club's
vice-president said.

Dr Rohaya, 46, said 30 per cent of the club members were in polygamous
marriages while the rest were in monogamous relationships and that the club
was open to non-Muslims.
-Minions always claim these scam organizations are open to non-muslims but
try and attend one and see how tolerant your new friends really are.

"You must satisfy your husband. A good wife should be a whore in bed," said
Dr Rohaya, whose husband has three other wives.
-For a doctor she is a real idiot. If she was following her own advice her
husband would have only a single wife. I guess she needs better whore
lessons.

She said the club had 800 Malaysian members so far with another 200 from
across the Middle East.

Over 1000 guests and supporters turned up for the launch in a leafy suburb,
held in conjunction with a mass wedding of 10 couples, with the brides all
members of the new club.

"If the wife is obedient, then the husband feels good and is entertained and
this builds a closer relationship and greater love and no one strays," groom
Mohamad Shurahbil Amran, 23, said.
-Take it from a man, give us our way without questions and we will get bored
and run amuck.

His bride Umuhani Lokman Hakim, 19, dressed in a golden white Arabic wedding
gown, was reticent when asked why she joined the club and would only say:
"It is the right thing to do to keep the family together."
-The right thing to do is let your husband know that he will treat you with
respect or lose you forever.

The club has come under criticism from Malaysian women's groups who say the
onus on keeping a family together is being unfairly placed on women.

"With obedience comes submission, which may lead to domestic violence and
marital rape," Women's Aid Organisation head Ivy Josiah said.

"We should really be forming equality in marriage clubs," she added.
-Preach on sister preach on. Educate them before they become victims.

Women's rights group EMPOWER said the club was a step back for the progress
of the equality movement.

"We cannot go back to caveman days where the man pulls the woman by the hair
and takes her to the cave to have his way. We must recognise that women
contribute a lot more than just being a sex toy," the group's executive
director Maria Chin Abdullah said.

Polygamy is legal for Muslims, who make up more than 60 per cent of
Malaysia's population, allowing Muslim men to take up to four wives.
-This is a good place to inform you that our state department considers
malaysia's muslims to be "moderates."

Last year, a study by a Muslim activist group found men in polygamous
relationships find it difficult to meet the needs of all their wives and
children, and that the result is often unhappy and cash-strapped families.
-So do like your cousins do, immigrate to the EU and live large on others
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 By Lawrence Sellin  Monday, June 6, 2011

imageThey want us to think it is hopeless and to accept the status quo. We
will not.

Barack Hussein Obama is going down, and with him much of the political
establishment and the mainstream media (MSM). It is just a matter of time
until someone cops a plea and a tidal wave of revelations destroys any
credibility that might remain.

The election of Obama is prima facie evidence that the US government is
broken.

Many of our politicians and government officials were so intimidated by
political correctness that they were too cowardly to challenge Obama
regarding his eligibility or competence to hold the office of President.

Other politicians and government officials appeared to have actively
colluded to undermine the Constitution. They are traitors to their oaths of
office.

So, the cover-up by the culpable continues. They stall and deny in order to
save themselves. They are unconcerned about the rule of law, the condition
of the country or the will of the people they pledged to serve.

Yes, it's all about them, the personal power and privilege of a permanent
political class.

That is the reason why establishment Republicans and Democrats and the MSM
denigrate and attempt to destroy anyone like Sarah Palin or any movement
like the Tea Party that might challenge their grip on power.

A gaggle of dishonest politicians and sleazy journalists are complicit in or
acquiescent to the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

*   Obama was never eligible to be President.
*   Many document experts say Obama forged both his Certification and
Certificate of Live Birth.
*   There is evidence that Obama committed felony fraud in regard to his
Social Security Number and his Selective Service registration.
*   Why was the charade of Senate Resolution 511 perpetrated?
*   Why did Nancy Pelosi issue two different Certifications of
Nomination verifying the eligibility of Obama for the Presidency, one
invoking the Constitution, one not?

The 2008 Presidential election and its consequences reek of conspiracy and
corruption. Yet, the permanent political class and the MSM pretend that
nothing is wrong.

The American people demand the truth, not just the usual displays of elitist
arrogance or feigned ignorance. There is clearly a conspiracy of silence
and, very likely, ethical and criminal liability.

President Theodore Roosevelt said:

"It is the duty of all citizens, irrespective of party, to denounce, and, so
far as may be, to punish crimes against the public on the part of
politicians or officials."

We have endured the tyranny and malfeasance of the permanent political class
for far too long. We will not stand by and see our great country destroyed
to save any of those scoundrels.

As Abraham Lincoln noted, the American people are the rightful masters of
both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to
overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Our American royalty now think that they are above the law. We need to teach
them that they are not.

The permanent political class has awakened a sleeping giant and filled him
with a terrible resolve.
The race card will be played, lies will be told, and the full force of the
political establishment and the MSM will be used against us. Ignore them.

Like Lexington and Concord, it is time to stand our ground and fight. It is
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[osint] Syria Pays Cash For Riot, Media Takes Propaganda For Free

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Syria Pays Cash For Riot, Media Takes Propaganda For Free


June 6, 2011 16:12 by Simon Plosker
 

http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/analysis-300x300.jpgOn
ce again a flood of headlines present Israel as an aggressor responsible for
the deaths of dozens of unarmed civilians. Was this really a peaceful
protest or another Syrian-engineered attempt to breach Israel's border?
Where did the media get it right and where did it go wrong?


Syrian Media: A Credible Source?


For many weeks, Syrian state controlled media (and it is all state
controlled) has failed to report on President Bashar Assad's brutal and
murderous assault his own citizens' peaceful protests against the Syrian
regime. So why then did the media rush to quote casualty figures provided by
Syrian media despite the lack of any concrete confirmation of the number of
deaths or injuries from either side?

For example, the New York Times
  reported:

 

By nightfall, the Syrian news agency SANA reported that 22 protesters had
been killed and more than 350 had been wounded. Israeli officials said that
they had no information on casualties but suggested that the Syrian figures
were exaggerated.

Even so, it was the worst bloodshed in the Golan Heights since Israel and
Syria fought a war there in 1973.

http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/nytimeslogo2.jpgAs
Jeffrey Goldberg
  says:

So, the official Syrian news agency, which has every reason to inflate the
casualty figures, reports that 22 people were killed by Israeli troops.
Israel says that it disputes the figures. The Israeli information operation
is far from perfect, but it's much better than the Assad regime's
information operation. So skepticism about these figures is certainly
warranted.

And yet, the Times follows this ambiguous paragraph about the death toll
with a declaration: "Even so, it was the worst bloodshed in the Golan
Heights since Israel and Syria fought a war there in 1973." How does the
Times know this? How does the Times know how many people died? The only
source for the death toll is the Assad regime's propaganda apparatus.


Protestors or Infiltrators?


Events on the Golan played out in similar fashion to the events of the
so-called Naqba Day one month previously as did the press coverage. Many
headlines referred to Israel opening fire on "protestors". But this was not
your run of the mill protests, nor was it peaceful. This was an attempt to
breach Israel's borders in a hostile act.

The term "protestors" conjures visions of placard carrying activists rather
than the more accurate term of "rioters" who threw Molotov Cocktails and
stones and confronted Israeli soldiers while trying to enter Israel.

Any infiltration has to be taken seriously and that is how the press should
also have treated these incidents - as attempts to illegally breach a
sovereign nation's borders.

http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/timeout-322x260.jpgDes
pite this, Karl Vick
  of Time Magazine chose to frame the incident in this way:

Television images on Sunday from the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams
showed apparently unarmed Palestinian civilians marching peacefully down a
hill toward Israeli soldiers who had assumed firing positions. Then came a
crackle of gunshots; bloodied bodies were then carried back up the hill. It
went on for hours, with 20 people reported dead according to Syrian state
television. The human cost was high but for a Palestinian movement trying to
reframe itself, the footage at least set it on a course along on the lines
of Birmingham, Soweto and Gandhi's Salt March - parallels it has been making
explicitly.

Aside from falsely presenting Palestinians as Gandhian acolytes, this
description certainly does not correspond with other media reports that
confirmed that the IDF had issued clear warnings in Arabic and fired tear
gas before firing over the heads of the Palestinians in an attempt to
convince them to halt. The use of live fire and then, only used selectively,
was only a last resort.

The video below records the verbal warning given by the IDF.

http://youtu.be/12L8hN28GUY

 


Palestinian "Refugees"


The Daily Telegraph
  reported:

http://honestreporting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Telegraph.jpgProtester
s said they were hoping to emulate Hassan Hijazi, who managed to reach his
former home in the Israeli coastal city of Jaffa after the last protest
before turning himself into the police.

In fact, Hassan Hijazi, like all of those Palestinians

[osint] The Turkish Flag Flies Over Ghent

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http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/turkish-flag-flies-over-ghent.html

 

The Turkish Flag Flies Over Ghent
 

Sunday, June 05, 2011

Below is a picture of St. Joseph's Church in the Flemish city of Ghent. On
Friday there was a football match between Belgium and Turkey. Turkish youths
succeeded in covering the cross on the church with a Turkish flag.

Beschrijving: Ghent church with Turkish flag #1


The obscured cross is at the top of the tower in the area marked by the red
oval.

Below the jump are two close-up shots of the tower showing the cross and the
Turkish flag:

Beschrijving: Ghent church with Turkish flag #2

 

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I'm shocked he didn't blame George W. Bush. Bam must have had a brain fart.

watch?v=S791bcmoYEM&feature=player_embedded

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[osint] Israel Defends Borders against Violent Infiltrators

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http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH 

 &b=689705&ct=10861835


Israel Defends Borders against Violent Infiltrators


*   Assad attempts to deflect attention from massacres of own people 
*   IDF exercises restraint, issues warnings 
*   400,000 Palestinians have friended Facebook sites calling for 3rd 
Intifada 


 Majdal Shams, Golan 

 


Protesters stormed Israel's borders with Syria on Sunday despite Israel's calls 
for them to cease. (Channel 2 News)

Jerusalem, June 5 - Around 500 infiltrators, some of them armed, attempted to 
storm Israel’s border with Syria Sunday. The events coincide with the 
Palestinian ‘Naqsa Day,’ the anniversary of the Six Day War in 1967. 

The  

 protesters are trying to enter Israel near the northern Golan Heights’ town, 
Majdal Shams, primarily from the southwestern Syrian town of Kuneitra.

As they converged on the border fence, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called on 
the infiltrators in Arabic to cease progress before firing warning shots in the 
air. Once these warnings were ignored, the IDF were forced to fire towards the 
legs of those breaching the fence. 

The IDF spokesperson told  
 Xinhua 
News that “soldiers shot into the air as dozens of protesters kept approaching 
the fences, despite warnings to stay away,” and that the IDF used “bullhorns to 
warn rioters in Arabic” to not approach the border fence. 

The IDF could not confirm reports of dead and wounded. 

The protests are part of an orchestrated Syrian campaign to deflect attention 
from its killing of its own people.

The Syrian regime,  

 which has killed hundreds and injured thousands with Iran’s help, is thought 
to be deflecting attention away from its own domestic strife - including 
excessive violence against demonstrators, lack of internet and free speech - by 
focusing on Israel. 

In contrast, the Lebanese-Israeli border has maintained relative quiet while 
Jordan has urged residents not to march on Israel.

Foreign nationals that try to infiltrate Israel are illegally trying to enter a 
sovereign nation. Much like other nations that defend their sovereign borders, 
Israel is trying to protect violent mobs from storming its boundaries.

This follows similar Naqba Day events on May 15, in which violent protesters 
stormed Israel’s borders.

For more information please see:

 

 In Israel and Beyond, Riots Begin in Advance of “Naqba” Day

 

 Israeli Leaders Comment on Naqba Day

 

 Israel’s Commitment to Peace



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[osint] A Teenager Figures out the Birth Certificate

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I don't pretend to understand the technology this guy explains but he sure
makes a compelling argument.




 

Sorry if you are getting tired of this, but this is the best video yet. It
sure seems like this birth certificate was totally fabricated. Mainstream
media won't touch this for a second, but this is completely typical of their
treatment of Obama. When Dan Rather brought up the fabricated documents
against W., it took weeks to determine the truth and MSM was to a large
extent out of it. 

 

Maybe he was born in Hawaii, but why all the deception?

 

 

WOW!!! Take about 7 minutes to watch this video. 

This is why the birth cert.  was delayed so long by President Zero.

A Teenager figures out the birth certificate

This is an amazing expose'. Very hard to argue against.


 

This is amazing.  I wasn't completely convinced before, but now I am. 

And here's how it was done ... only took a teenager a few hours to figure
out 

 

  http://youtube/7s9StxsFllY

 

 

 



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[osint] FW: Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator

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Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY

Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0Tpf1IhxA

Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJx7jsPV44

Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_PWzhgvDs

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[osint] Democracy? Arabs Should Try Being Humans First

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[Sounds  
 
vaguely familiar, doesn’t it? df]

 

 

  Egyptian journalist attacked 
during Cairo protest

 

A female Egyptian journalist was attacked while covering a demonstration on 
Cairo's central Tahrir Square demanding an immediate trial for ousted Egyptian 
President Hosni Mubarak, local media reported.

 

CAIRO, June 4 (RIA Novosti) - A female Egyptian journalist was attacked while 
covering a demonstration on Cairo's central Tahrir Square demanding an 
immediate trial for ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, local media 
reported.

 

The journalist was interviewing participants in Friday's rally when a quarrel 
broke out between them, media reports said, quoting the head of the Cairo 
security department.

 

The attackers had torn the journalist's clothes to pieces before she managed to 
call police, the reports said. A police officer who arrived at the site pulled 
the journalist, who was about to lose her consciousness, out of the crowd and 
called her a taxi, but he was then attacked himself by the demonstrators, who 
stole his pistol and radio set.

 

A local imam reportedly took the police officer to hospital, where doctors 
described his condition as grave.

 

Mubarak, who was ousted as Egypt's president amid large-scale protests in 
February, and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, will stand trial on August 3 on 
charges of premeditated and attempted killing of protesters during the unrest. 
More than 840 people were killed in clashes between Mubarak loyalists and 
opponents during the nearly three-week-long popular uprising.

 

The trial is expected to take place in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm 
El-Sheikh, where the 83-year-old ousted president has been remanded in custody 
at a local hospital.

 

###

 

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[osint] al-Qaeda's Libyan Terrorist Pipeline in Operation

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/06/al-qaedas-l
ibyan-terrorist-pipeline-appears-be-operation

 


Al Qaeda's Libyan terrorist pipeline appears to be in operation


By: James Jay Carafano 
06/05/11 7:53 AM 
Examiner Columnist 

Congress is not happy with President Obama's Libyan adventure. House
leadership pulled a resolution calling for withdrawal from the action in 15
days because they thought it actually might pass.

Lawmakers have good reason to be displeased: There are few signs the
administration's Libya strategy is accomplishing anything.

The biggest concern remains that the inconclusive struggle gives Islamist
terror groups linked to al Qaeda an opportunity to open up a new front in
their global jihad.

As first reported in Beltway Confidential, "Having set up a pipeline to
bring fighters out of Libya, al Qaeda affiliates may well attempt to reverse
the flow and bring fighters into the country. It would take time, of course.
And such a maneuver may not become apparent for weeks or even months after
it begins." Now, that concern may be becoming a reality.

The first open source reporting that al Qaeda may be rising in the region
came from Reuters. Two men suspected of being s of al-Qaeda. members were
arrested in Tunisia, near the Libyan border, carrying an explosives belt and
several bombs.

Now, the Associated Press reports a car bomb explosion in Benghazi, the de
facto capital for rebel forces. Initial reports blame the Gaddafi regime for
the blast. That may be right. But, then again, maybe not.

An inconclusive war coupled with the rise of al Qaeda could well turn Libya
into the next Somalia. That's a problem the US government should start
thinking about. Somalia is home to al Shabaab, the al Qaeda linked terrorist
group that launched a suicide attack against African Union peacekeepers in
Mogadishu earlier this week.



Read more at the Washington Examiner:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/06/al-qaedas-l
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[osint] Ofer Brothers Ships Transported Mossad Agents to Iran, 'High Ranking Security Official' Shut Down Knesset Probe

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Ofer Brothers Ships Transported Mossad Agents to Iran, 'High Ranking

Security Official' Shut Down Knesset Probe

 

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/05/31/who-shut-down-knesse
t-investigation-into-ofer-brothers-violation-of-iran-embargo/

 

I haven't covered or even followed in any great detail the Ofer Brothers

scandal involving illegal trade between Israel and Iran.  But developments

today really perked up my ears.  First a bit of background: Ofer Brothers

are Israel's wealthiest family, owning shipping and other interests.  They

were recently named to a Treasury Department blacklist for engaging in

illegal trade with Iran, which included their ships docking at Iranian ports

numerous times and sale of one of their tankers to an Iranian shipping

company.

 

This news has erupted into a medium-sized scandal in Israel with the company

claiming it had the government's approval to engage in such trade.  This of

course would mean that the government colluded with commercial interests

against international sanctions.  Those of you with an interest in

intelligence activities and cloak and dagger mystery can imagine why this

might be the case.  The government, of course, denies the claims.  The

company also claims the government is attempting to get it removed from the

blacklist with the foreign ministry denying it is doing so.  All very

strange.

 

Today, a new wrinkle occurred in the case. A Knesset committee was in the

middle of a hearing on the affair when the chair was passed a note by a

mysterious source, upon which the MK abruptly adjourned the hearing.  No

explanation, at least no credible one.  The military censor, who was present

at the hearing (because the Knesset speaker had warned that secret

information might be revealed) denied causing the adjournment, as does the

Knesset security office.  But their denials are unconvincing because they're

not denying they sent the note, but rather denying being the cause of the

adjournment.  Unless and until you know the contents of the note, you can't

tell a thing.  But someone, probably in the intelligence community, wanted

this hearing stopped in order to protect intelligence assets or activities

involving Iran.

 

UPDATE: A veteran Israeli politician has confirmed to my Israeli source that

the note came from a "very high-ranking security official."  The same source

also notes that Ofer Brothers ships docked in Iranian ports "dozens" of

times in the past few years, thus allowing "numerous" Mossad agents to sneak

ashore for secret missions.  Interesting to note that some of the Mossad

agents involved in the al-Mabouh assassination escaped via a ferry to Iran.

That always struck me as odd given Iran's animosity toward Israel.  But if

there was an Ofer Brothers ship waiting to take them home it wouldn't be

strange at all.

 

I'm betting even money that the note came from Mossad director, Tamir Pardo.

All of this would mean that government protestations that they didn't

approve of such visits are lies unless of course they're merely claiming the

civilian government didn't approve of such shenanigans.  Indeed, the Ofer

Brothers may and will argue that they were only doing their patriotic duty

in trading with Iran.  How's Israel gonna get out of this one I wonder?

 

This would indicate that Israel utilized a web of legitimate commercial

interests to pursue its intelligence activities inside Iran.  And it was

willing to exploit such commercial ventures despite the fact that they were

in direct contravention of an international embargo.  The only reason the

Mossad got caught was that the Obama administration had been crossed one

time too many by Bibi and wanted to bring him down a peg or two.  The Ofer

Brothers blacklist story broke the same day Bibi came to Washington and this

could not have been an accident.

 

UPDATE I: Israel's Channel 2 news just asked Ofer Brothers to comment on

this report and their response was "no comment."  Rarely have two words

conveying silence spoken so eloquently.  An indication of how explosive the

scandal is becoming is that this report calls it "Ofergate."

 

Meir Dagan, Israel's more recent former Mossad chief, has publicly

pooh-poohed the affair as much ado about nothing.  Which of course does not

mean that it is much ado about nothing, but rather than the Mossad probably

doesn't want the public to know about collaboration between his agency and

Ofer Brothers in surveilling or penetrating Iranian facilities or

infrastructure.  In fact, this is an example of a Mossad official telling

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[osint] Rahm Emanuel? Really?

[Beowulf]

 

The Region: Rahm Emanuel? Really?

By BARRY RUBIN

05/06/2011

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=223761

 

 

When President Barack Obama trots out his former chief of staff to write an

article in defense of his love for Israel, you know he understands that he's

in trouble.

You know President Barack Obama understands he's got problems with Israel
(and with its supporters in the United States) when he trots out Rahm
Emanuel to write an op-ed in defense of his alleged love for Israel.

Emanuel may have been born to an Israeli father and had his son's bar mitzva
in Jerusalem, but to have him attest to Obama's credentials on Israel is
like having Mel Gibson act as a spokesman for Australia, or Arnold
Schwarzenegger for Austria, or Dominique Strauss-Kahn for France's tourism
board. In other words, it's totally meaningless and even - for those who
know something about the individuals involved - counterproductive.

There are, however, two important things it tells us about Obama and his
administration: First, they are detached from reality enough to think this
is a clever idea. Rather than going to someone actually recognized as being
pro-Israel or active in Jewish affairs, he turned to a political crony
disliked by both communities.

Despite the near-fanatical support for Obama by the majority of American
Jews, he is totally deaf to their concerns and feelings.

Second, it shows that Obama always prefers a cheap public relations gesture
to a substantive policy action.

Just because Emanuel was born to an Israeli father doesn't mean he knows
much about the country. I was struck by the total vacuousness of his big
argument: "President Obama, like every student of the Middle East,
understands that the shifting sands of demography in that volatile region
are working against the two-state solution needed to end generations of
bloodshed."

If Obama is a student of the Middle East, he gets an "F."

I'm a student of the Middle East, and I think that's total nonsense.

Why is the "demography" in the region against the two-state solution?
Because there are more Palestinians? Who cares? That has absolutely zero
political impact.

Israel does not rule the Gaza Strip. Hamas does.

Israel does not rule the people of the West Bank (as opposed to territory
there without any people living in it). Fatah does.

Hello? That's been the basic situation now for 17 years. (Not the Hamas
part, the Palestinian Authority aspect.) So what if the Palestinian
population doubles, triples, quadruples? That has no effect on Israel's
status as a democratic state.

There is something interesting going on here. Unlike the peace process
rhetoric of the 1993-2000 period, nobody dares to talk about how wonderful
life for Israel would be if it turned over all the territory captured in
1967 and accepted a Palestinian state. They can only say that things will be
worse if it doesn't.

People in Israel don't believe this, and for good reason.

For one of Obama's closest advisers to write something like this in a major
newspaper - with the text approved, no doubt, by the White House - proves
that these people are totally out of touch with the situation. It is the
equivalent of someone writing about Russia as if it were still the Soviet
Union, thinking Britain still rules a worldwide empire, or believing
creatures from the planet Beldron-5 have landed on Earth and taken over
Luxembourg.

It is delusional.

What truly represents the "shifting sands... working against the two-state
solution" and leading potentially to more "generations of bloodshed" is the
rising tide (the mixed metaphor is deliberate) of revolutionary Islamism
that this administration does not try to dam up. It is Obama's support for
revolution in Egypt and opposition to it in Syria. It is the refusal to
recognize that the Palestinian leadership is the cause of failure for every
peace effort since 1947 (partition into two states) - no, I should say 1939
(the British effort to give the whole thing to the Arabs after 10 years).

It is the Obama administration's inability to understand that the failure to
achieve peace is not based on borders or Jerusalem, but on the continued
attempts by Muslims generally to wipe Israel off the map. Indeed, partly
thanks to Obama's policies, they are more confident of doing so than they
were 10 or 20 years ago. (They're wrong, but they are - literally - going to
die trying.) That Emanuel can write such nonsense and not be laughed at is a
sign of how off-kilter is the whole Western debate on the Middle East.

FINALLY CONSIDER the logical fallacy of arguing that things are becoming
worse, so Israel must rush into peace now. If things are going to be worse,
why make concessions in exchange for a piece of paper that will be torn up,
and that is guaranteed by people who can't be trusted? Here, Mr. Emanuel,
are the tests Obama will fail: 1. Will the United States call for the
overthrow of the anti-American Syrian dictatorship? 2. Will 

[osint] al-Qaeda Boosts Bloomberg's Antigun Campaign

[Beowulf]

Al-Qaeda Boosts Bloomberg's Antigun Campaign


By Kevin D. Williamson - Sunday, June 5th, 2011 'National Review Online' /
New York, NY

(Op/Ed - Commentary)

 

 

Things you to know about American al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, or, as I
like to call him, Azzam al-Berkeley: He's a bratty California kid, offspring
of hippie parents, and steeped in the deeply ignorant suburban pop
anti-Americanism that fuels protests against World Trade Organization
meetings and the like. He is, like practically all of his kind, not too
terribly well informed.

 

Newspaper editors and mayors are not supposed to be like that. But when it
furthers your political agenda, ignorance truly is bliss.

 

In his latest statement, Mr. Gadahn repeated the myth that machineguns are
widely available to American civilians, and he encouraged his fellow jihadis
to hit the gun-show circuit and gear up for an intifada in the United
States. When I read that statement, I was certain that it would be repeated
as fact by the antigun ideologues and their enablers in the media. And,
behold this editorial in the New York Daily News, which quotes Mr. Gadahn
and then concurs.

 

"America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go
down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully
automatic assault rifle without a background check and most likely without
having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?"

 

We don't say this often about Al Qaeda types, but: He's right on the facts.

 

No, he is not - as two seconds' research would have revealed.

 

It is not easy for a U.S. civilian to legally possess a "fully automatic
assault rifle," or any fully automatic firearm at all. If that civilian is
not a federally licensed firearms dealer, owning a fully automatic weapon
manufactured after 1986 is categorically illegal; fully automatic weapons
that were legally owned and registered with the federal government before
1986 may be transferred to a qualified buyer with the approval of federal
and local law-enforcement authorities, a rigorous background check, and, of
course, a sign-off from the U.S. Treasury Department: there's a couple
hundred bucks in fees and taxes involved. (You may examine the application
here.) Selling a fully automatic weapon to an unlicensed party, at a gun
show or anywhere else, is a very excellent way to land yourself in prison
for a good long while. Mr. Gadahn, and the editors of the New York Daily
News, are full of it.

 

So is Mayor Bloomberg, who repeated the falsehood, uncorrected, as evidence
for his antigun stance, as did practically every mainstream media outlet
I've examined. The hacks over at Media Matters, knowing upon which side
anti-gun zealot George Soros butters their bread, did the same.

 

There are about 250,000 fully automatic weapons registered with the federal
government. Most are owned by police departments and other law-enforcement
agencies. Many are owned by businesses that supply and train police and
military personnel. A good number are owned by curators of gun collections,
and many of those weapons, not having been fired for decades, probably are
no longer functional. Some are owned by Hollywood prop shops. And some are
owned by gun nuts like me. (But not by me: I pay enough taxes as it is, and,
even if Uncle Sam signed off on my application, Nurse Bloomberg surely would
not, and both state and local regulations still apply.)

 

The other civilians who own a great number of fully automatic weapons are
the federally licensed gun dealers who supply the police departments and
other parties mentioned above. They are heavily regulated, licensed,
inspected, etc.

 

Interesting thing about the machinegun gang: They're an awfully law-abiding
lot. Legally owned machineguns are practically never used in violent crimes.
Of all the murders committed in the United States involving legally owned
full-auto firearms, half were committed by police officers.

 

And lest you think that's my English-major math acting up, let me assure you
that the numbers were fairly easy to run: There have been only two murders
involving legally owned fully automatic weapons since the federal government
began tracking them back in the FDR administration. One involved a well-off
doctor who was involved in some stalking cases and a murder. The other
killer was a police patrolman using a police-issue weapon. (Incidentally, in
neither case was there a "fully automatic assault rifle" in play; both
involved handgun-sized submachine guns.) Testifying before Congress as the
1986 regulations were being debated, ATF chief Steve Higgins (who would go
on to resign after the Waco fiasco), said that he was aware of fewer than
ten crimes of any sort involving legally owned machineguns. 

 

So, no, the nation is not covered up with fully automatic assault rifles
bought at gun shows.

 

That is also because, as it must be repeated for the 10,000th time, there is
no gun-show loophol

[osint] The Coming of the Mahdi

[Beowulf]

June 5, 2011 

The Coming of the Mahdi

By   Amil Imani

The world is presently at its most wicked.  It is beyond human help.  It
requires only a nudge to implode and prepare for the divine ruler, the
Saheb-ul-Zaman (the Mahdi, the Lord of the Age) to come and set it aright.
It is the sacred duty and privilege of every Muslim to do all he can to
hasten the death of the old world and the birth of the global Islamic Ummah.
Thus goes the thinking of Iran's ruling mullahs and their hand-picked
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

It seems like the old millennialism thinking.  The belief in supernatural
intervention to set the world aright is scriptural to major religions,
including Islam.  The Jews have been earnestly supplicating the Lord for the
Messiah to come; the Christians are impatiently awaiting the second coming
of Christ; and, the Zoroastrians are convinced that Saoshayant is the one
who shall come, defeat the trouble-making Ahriman -- Satan -- and make the
creatures again pure.  But this time around, a group of believers with
tremendous resources are intent upon forcing the issue, making the
conditions so dire that they leave the reluctant Saheb-ul-Zaman no choice
but to appear and assume his universal reign.

Up to this point millennialism was a belief and a hope.  No one ever aspired
to or had the means of making the anticipated events come about.  The matter
was in the hands of God.  The Muslims' perennial prayer recited every day,
posted in mosques and even on bumpers of vehicles has been, "O,
Saheb-ul-Zaman, hasten your coming."  The prayer for the advent, thus far,
has been limited to passive supplications of the faithful.

It is a well-established fact that beliefs are potent impetus to action.  If
you believe your home is about to be burglarized, you secure the house and
take other precautions.  If you, under the influence of drugs, believe that
a bug is burrowing into your skin, you may take a knife to your own body and
try to dig the imaginary bug out.

Hence, it is shortsighted to dismiss the mullahs as a bunch of lunatics who
are out of touch with reality and that they have no intention of doing
catastrophic mischief to compel the Mahdi's coming -- maybe some arming of
the Iraqi Shiites, a little support for Hezb'allah in Lebanon and Hamas in
Palestine -- but no, no major idiocy.  After all, they are rational people
and in touch with reality.  Any large-scale troublemaking spells their doom
as well.  Thus goes the rationalization -- the greatest risky tranquilizer
of the mind.

Rationalization, compounded by complacency and denial, can be deadly,
particularly when the adversaries have different realities.  To the fanatic
mullahs ruling Iran, Sahaeb-ul-Zaman is an absolute reality and his promised
advent is irrevocably ordained.  This is their reality and their belief and
they have every intention of leading their life according to them.

It is foolish for non-Muslims to dismiss the mullahs and the likes of the
Taliban as a bunch of fringe lunatics who are going to go away simply by
wishing it.  The Islamist reality is that non-Muslims are the ones who
deserve to be done away with; they are the ones who have refused to submit
to the summons of Allah for much too long; and, it is time for the faithful
to get rid of them.  This makes for a lopsided contest.  The non-Muslims are
passively wishing that nightmarish surge of Islamism is only a temporary
fringe phenomenon doomed to die on its own, while the other side is
marshaling its huge destructive power to accomplish its aim by eradicating
non-Muslims.

The cabal of fanatical mullahs ruling Iran has lost its patience, not only
with the unbelievers, but also with the Mahdi as well.  They aim to force
his arrival.  The mullahs believe they have the means to make it impossible
for the Mahdi to tarry any longer by causing unprecedented death and
destruction -- conditions deemed essential for his coming.  The world must
hit the very bottom, before the savior of the world comes to the rescue, so
they firmly believe.

The question is: What does prudence demand?  Clearly wishing the problem to
go away is not a very effective solution in the same way that wishing for
the Saheb-ul-Zaman to come has not been.  Reasoning and negotiating with the
mullahs and their ilk hold very little, if any, lasting promise.  There are
always the easy ways of denial and appeasement.  We are very good at both
practices.  No, the Muslims have been around for ages.  They make some
trouble from time to time.  But they really are not all that bad and
dangerous.  We'll get along.  If we have to, we'll even let them live by the
Sharia -- their stone-age laws -- in our midst.  We'll be reasonable and
they will come around.  We'll just have to get along.  So goes the line.

One problem: The other side doesn't think this way.  The Islamofascists
don't believe in the notion of live and let live."  They believe that the
earth is Allah's and 

[osint] HAMAS initiates a media campaign against UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon because of his concerns regarding the flotilla.

[Beowulf]

Time to realize that Islam and all Muslims are enemies of the rest of the world.

 

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 Hamas initiates a media campaign against UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 
because of his concerns regarding the flotilla.

 

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Hamas initiates a media campaign against UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 
because of his concerns regarding the flotilla. Hamas spokesmen and media 
accuse him of surrendering to Israeli pressure and call him responsible for the 
flotilla's safety.


 

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UN website, May 31, 2011
The statement issued by the UN Secretary-General to Mediterranean governments 
expressing his concern that the flotilla might escalate into violent conflict 
(UN website, May 31, 2011).

Overview

1. The de facto Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip and the pro-Palestinian 
organizations behind Freedom Flotilla 2 expressed strong criticism of a 
communiqué sent by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the governments of 
Mediterranean countries, including the government of Israel, regarding the 
upcoming flotilla (May 27, 2011).

2. The communiqué called on the various governments to "use their influence to 
discourage" the flotillas, which had "the potential to escalate into violent 
conflict." It said that the Secretary-General believed "the flotillas were not 
helpful in resolving the basic economic problems in Gaza" and that "assistance 
and goods…should be channeled through legitimate crossings and established 
channels." He called on the various governments, including the government of 
Israel, "to act responsibly and with caution to avoid any violent incident" (UN 
website May 27, 2011). 

3. The reservations of the UN communiqué joined many others issued by the 
international community. They have been made public by the United States, the 
European Union and countries such as France, Spain, Denmark, Holland and 
Canada. The reservations, which were not expressed for the previous flotilla, 
may raise doubts, as far as Hamas and its allies are concerned, about the 
legitimacy of the flotilla and its objectives, and are also liable to 
strengthen the justification for steps Israel takes against it. With that in 
view, Hamas initiated a media campaign attacking the UN Secretary-General, 
making him responsible for the safety of Freedom Flotilla 2. 

Responses from Hamas and its allies

4. The following are the main responses from Hamas and its allies, as 
publicized by Hamas-affiliated media:

1) Hamas' information office issued a statement denouncing the UN 
Secretary-General's appeal. According to the statement, it was a "dangerous 
deviation" from the UN's founding principles, and the Secretary-General's 
position set a dangerous precedent. In addition, it continued, Hamas expected 
the Secretary-General not to surrender to Israeli pressure and to demand that 
Israel end the "siege" and support steps to transfer humanitarian assistance to 
the Gaza Strip (Hamas' Palestine-info website, May 28, 2011).

2) Muhammad Awad, foreign minister of the de facto Hamas administration, said 
that the UN had to act to ease the situation of the Palestinian people, to aid 
in lifting the "siege" and to appeal to other countries to do the same. He also 
said that the UN Secretary-General had a significant role to play in ending the 
"siege" and rebuilding the Gaza Strip, and that he should not support the 
Israeli position (Al-Quds TV, May 28, 2011).

3) The Popular Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza1 issued a press release on 
the Hamas website making Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon responsible for the 
safety of Freedom Flotilla 2. It emphasized that the UN Secretary-General's 
communiqué prepared the ground for "Israeli piracy" and encouraged Israel to 
attack the flotilla as it had attacked in 2010. It also stated that the 
Secretary-General's warning would not prevent the flotilla from sailing at its 
appointed time and demanded that he protect the ships (12, according to the 
release) and its passengers (Hamas' Palestine-info website, May 28, 2011).

4) Rami Abdo, a European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) activist and 
one of the central figures organizing the flotilla, denounced the UN 
Secretary-General's appeal in a television interview. He said that the flotilla 
was a "popular activity" of civilian organizations and that governments could 
not prevent it from sailing (Hamas' Radio Sawt al-Aqsa, May 28, 2011).

5) Zaher al-Birawi, Hamas activist living in Britain, who also serves as a 
spok

[osint] Jews Won't Abandon Obama in 2012

[Beowulf]

Sabato Website: Jews Won't Abandon Obama in 2012

President Barack Obama's recent speech calling on Israel to accept the
country's 1967 borders as a starting point for talks with the Palestinians
has raised speculation that Jewish voters could turn against Obama and the
Democrats in 2012. 

But such a scenario "is not very realistic for at least three reasons,"
according to Alan I. Abramowitz, senior columnist for the Crystal Ball
website of Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for
Politics. 

First of all, political opponents - in particular, Hillary Clinton's
campaign - questioned Obama's commitment to Israel in 2008. But Jewish
voters still supported Obama in the general election at about the same rate
they had supported other Democratic presidential candidates in recent
elections. 

One poll showed that 78 percent of Jewish voters cast their ballots for
Obama over John McCain. 

Secondly, Jewish loyalty to the Democrats is based largely on the liberal
views of most Jews on domestic policy issues, Abramowitz asserts. 

Between 1992 and 2008, 82 percent of Jewish voters interviewed in several
surveys said they leaned toward the Democratic Party, compared to just 43
percent of all other white voters. 

Jewish voters "hold solidly liberal views on a wide range of domestic policy
issues, and especially on social issues such as abortion, that have
undermined support for the Democratic Party among some of its traditional
supporters," Abramowitz writes. 

Thirdly, the rightward tack of the Republican Party in recent years has made
a significant shift of Jewish voters into the GOP camp highly unlikely. 

Moderate-to-liberal Republicans including Nelson Rockefeller in New York and
Edward Brooke in Massachusetts regularly won a large share of the Jewish
vote, but in today's GOP "there are almost no liberals or moderates,"
Abramowitz observes. 

He concludes: "There is almost no chance that the ultimate victor in the
Republican nomination contest will be able to significantly increase the GOP
share of the Jewish vote beyond the relatively small minority of
conservative Jews who have been voting for Republican candidates in recent
years." 

 



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[osint] Infragard Atlanta, an FBI affiliate, hacked by LulzSec

[Beowulf]

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/04/infragard-atlanta-an-fbi-affiliat
e-hacked-by-lulzsec/ 


Infragard Atlanta, an FBI affiliate, hacked by LulzSec


by Chester Wisniewski
  on June 4, 2011
| 

Infragard
logoIn a self-titled hack attack called "F**k FBI Friday" the hacking group
known as LulzSec has published details on users and associates of the
non-profit organization known as Infragard
 .

Infragard describes itself as a non-profit focused on being an interface
between the private sector and individuals with the FBI. LulzSec published
180 usernames, hashed passwords, plain text passwords, real names and email
addresses.

Where did the plain text passwords come from? Considering LulzSec was able
to decrypt them it would imply that the hashes were not salted
 , or that the salt used was
stored in an insecure manner.

One interesting point to note is that not all of the users passwords were
cracked... Why? Because these users likely used passwords of reasonable
complexity and length. This makes brute forcing far more difficult and
LulzSec couldn't be bothered to crack them.

In addition to stealing data from Infragard, LulzSec also defaced their
website with a joke YouTube video and the text "LET IT FLOW YOU STUPID FBI
BATTLESHIPS" in a window titled "NATO - National Agency of Tiny Origamis
LOL".



Aside from defacing their site and stealing their user database, they tested
out the users and passwords against other services and discovered many of
the members were reusing passwords on other sites - an violation of
FBI/Infragard guidelines.

LulzSec singled out one of these users, Karim Hijazi, who used his Infragard
password for both his personal and corporate Gmail accounts according to the
hackers.

They've published a BitTorrent with what they claim are nearly 1000 of
Hijazi's corporate emails and a IRC chat transcript that proclaims to be a
conversation they had with him. 

They also disclosed a list of personal information including his home
address, mobile phone and other details.

It's hard to say when these attacks will end, but a great start would be to
carefully analyze your security practices and ensure that your data is
properly encrypted and to regularly scan your servers for vulnerabilities.

As for LulzSec? It appears they have declared war on one of the premier
police forces in the world... Their fate remains a mystery.



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[osint] Colombia: FARC security chief killed - FRANCE 24

[Beowulf]

http://www.france24.com/en/20110604-colombia-farc-security-chief-killed

 

04 June 2011 - 20H51   




Colombia: FARC security chief killed 

 
 This undated handout picture
released by the Colombian Army shows Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces
member Alirio Rojas Bocanegra, aka 'El Abuelo' (the Grandfather). The
Colombian Army have announced they have killed Bocanegra, who was security
chief of the FARC guerrilla top commander, Alfonso Cano, during an operation
in the western Colombian department of Tolima.

This undated handout picture released by the Colombian Army shows Colombian
Revolutionary Armed Forces member Alirio Rojas Bocanegra, aka 'El Abuelo'
(the Grandfather). The Colombian Army have announced they have killed
Bocanegra, who was security chief of the FARC guerrilla top commander,
Alfonso Cano, during an operation in the western Colombian department of
Tolima. 

AFP - The Colombian army announced Saturday it has killed the security chief
of the Marxist FARC group's top commander, in what officials claim is a blow
against the guerrillas.

Alirio Rojas Bocanegra, known as "The Grandfather," headed the FARC's
Central Block tasked with guarding Alfonso Cano, who took over as leader of
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia after its founder Manuel
Marulanda Velez was killed in 2008.

President Juan Manuel Santos praised the military operation that took place
in western Colombia, and used tough talk in pledging to make further inroads
against the rebel movement he has described as "narco-terrorists."

"We are dealing with FARC central command in a systematic way: they put up a
leader, and we take him down," Santos said during a public appearance in
Sincelejo, in northern Colombia.

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivero, told reporters that the army is
"increasingly close to Alfonso Cano, and we are shutting down all fronts of
action and mobilization."

Bocanegra died Friday high up in the mountains at Rioblanco, in an operation
that also killed Manuel Cepeda Vargas, aka "Ruben," the commission chief
responsible for FARC propaganda and its radio station, Voices of the
Resistance.

The FARC, with an estimated 8,000 fighters, is Latin America's largest and
longest-fighting insurgency with 47 years of armed struggle.

 

 



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[osint] Deadly virus strain detected in S. Korea before European outbreak: doctors

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Deadly virus strain detected in S. Korea before European outbreak: doctors

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2011/06/05/02AEN201106050021003
15.HTML?source=rss

 

 

GWANGJU, South Korea, June 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean medical doctors said

Sunday that a South Korean patient in 2004 was treated for the same strain

of stomach virus that has recently led to the deadly food poisoning outbreak

in Europe.

 

Professors Bae Yoo-kyun at Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and

Jang Hee-chang at Chonnam National University Hospital said the 29-year-old

woman was hospitalized after suffering stomach pains and internal bleeding. 

 



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[osint] Hacker Defaces FBI-Affiliate Website In Protest Against NATO And Obama

[Beowulf]

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pbs-hacker-lulzsec-takes-archnemesis-fbi-de
faces-fbi-affiliate-website

 


PBS Hacker LulzSec Takes On Archnemesis FBI, Defaces FBI-Affiliate Website
In Protest Against NATO And Obama


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06/05/2011 00:25 -0400

 

Even as the hacker collective known as Operation Empire State Rebellion,
which back in March
 threatened to bring
"peaceful revolution to America, and will engage in civil disobedience until
Bernanke steps down" and has since largely fallen off the scene, presumably
surprised by Bernanke complete of lack fazing, another hacker group,
LulzSec, best known for recent hacking into PBS, has just taken the first
step toward pissing off none other than its archnemesis the FBI, by defacing
and taking control of an FBI affiliate website. From IBTimes: "In an
apparent protest against the NATO and Obama administration, the LulzSec
group announced the breach of FBI  affiliate website, the Atlanta chapter of
Infragard. The group raised claims that they have taken "complete control"
over the website and has "defaced it". They also announced that the data
including passwords obtained from infragardatlanta.org would prove useful
for them to hack into other FBI affiliates, since a lot of users tend to
reuse their passwords even though the practice is generally unappreciated by
FBI." So while OP_ESR continues to engage in emptry rhetoric and summons the
population to one after another attempt at uprising (Apparently June 14th is
the latest D-Day
 ), LulzSec, which is also
speculated to be behind the historic ongoing hacks of the various Sony
networks, is taking cyber-matters into its own hands. We wonder however
whether this escalation of cyberwarfare against the US by the US will
necessitate a declaration of war by Obama against the US. Admittedly, that
would be a Keynesian wet dream: think of the record boost to GDP if Geithner
literally nukes the west and eastern seaboards, only to rebuild them
again...

>From IBTimes
 :

In what looks like a silent propaganda, hackers continue to taunt
corporations and have now laid their eyes on FBI. If the hackers' threats
are valid, even NATO and Obama administration including top officials have
got to be extra vigilant. While a large section believes that LulzSec, that
hacked into the system of PBS, did so in a bid to show moral support for
WikiLeaks, the matter is still under debate since Sony has also been
devastated by back to back security breaches by the same group, which
doesn't really fit into the same scheme of things.

The hackers' next target being FBI has raised considerable amount of
uncertainty, as they have been tweeting about it under the tag
#FuckFBIFriday. A little while before the Infragard hack, the group had
posted a tweet: #FuckFBIFriday in 45 minutes. infragardatlanta.org is
suspended following the hack. 

The group has announced that an Infragard member offered them money to hack
into his competitor's website and to stay silent about his own database,
when they informed him that his personal communication including that
through Gmail has been compromised. According to the LulzSec's claims, the
member, Karim Hijazi's company Unveillance, which specializes in data
breaches, has been exposed to extract critical information. The group
claimed to have uncovered an operation of US government orchestrated by
Unveillance, "to control and assess Libyan cyberspace through malicious
means". The group alleged that "the U.S. government is funding the CSFI to
attack Libya's cyber infrastructure". "We accept your threats, NATO. Game
on, losers", LulzSec wrote in Pastebin.

The group posted a series of tweets mocking FBI, of which one said "we sit
and laugh at the FBI. No times decided, but we'll cook up something nice for
tonight." The group has announced that "the hacks and leaks will always
continue, even if twitter suspends our account". FBI is yet to issue a
statement regarding the matter.

In the meantime, the website of infraguardatlanta.org
 continues to be under the control of
LulzSec, and in a brilliant example of hacker entrepreneurship, is nothing
more than one big adsense ad, which is probably under the control of a
LulzSec's adsense account, thus  profiting from everyone who is curious
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[osint] US Terrorist Elmer Pratt, Dead in Tanzania

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June 04, 2011

US Terrorist Elmer Pratt, Dead in Tanzania

Elmer Pratt, aka Geronimo ji-Jaga a high ranking member of the Black Panther
terrorist organization, died June 2, 2011, of a heart attack, in Tanzania.

Pratt was arrested in 1970 for murder and kidnapping.

Pratt was convicted in 1972 of the murder of the 1968 murder of elementary
school teacher, Caroline Olsen, and not even Johnnie Cochran could get him
off.  In 1997, under the Clinton Administration, the sentence was vacated.
Its "Justice" Department later paid him $1.75 million along with the $2.75
million paid by the LAPD on the premise that he was identified as the
murderer, by an FBI informant.

Pratt used his two tours in Viet Nam to attain the title of "Minister of
Defense" in an organization, after he used his GI Bill at UCLA, that
actively used violence against the American Government.  His pregnant wife
was murdered in a turf war for control of the organization in 1971.

Pratt was a vocal advocate for fellow Black Panther, Wesley Cook, aka
Abu-Jamal, a convicted murderer(12/8/81) of a Philadelphia Police Officer,
featured on "Democracy Now" and German Marxist publication, "Junge Welt,"
and a regular contributor to NPR.  Cook's criminal career began as young as
14.  Cook is a popular figure in the Black Panther, Communist, and muslim
convert circles.  Cook and Pratt met in the Black Panthers terrorist
organization.  While in prison, Pratt has been given an Honorary Law Degree
from the New College of California School of Law, recorded the keynote
address to graduating class of Evergreen State College and the commencement
speech at Antioch College.

Pratt was the godfather of Tupac Shakur.

 



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[osint] Afghan War News - June 5, 2011

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June 05, 2011


War in Afghanistan News - 05 June 2011


 
 AfghanProvinceRegionA Taliban Leader and 9 Talib Thugs were captured
Friday.

Another 9 Haqqani joined them at the Iron Bar Motel.

Meanwhile, the Taliban sent their suicidal terrorists to murder Kandahar
University
 students.
Across the eastern border, Al-Qaeda's #3
 was killed, again.

Tailor the way you get your War in Afghanistan News
   
ISAF Details Follow:

A combined Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader and
several of his associates during an overnight security operation in Nad 'Ali
district, Helmand province, Friday. 

The detained leader was responsible for leading Taliban operations in Marjah
district and worked closely with a network that conducts direct fire,
hit-and-run and ambush attacks. 

The leader and his associates were detained while the security force
searched a compound associated with the leader. With the help of interviews
with residents, the security force was able to identify the individuals and
transport them for further questioning. 

There were no shots fired during the search and no civilians harmed. 

In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout
Afghanistan: 

South 

A combined Afghan and coalition security force detained numerous suspected
insurgents while searching for a Taliban leader during a security operation
in Panjwa'i district, Kandahar province, Friday. The leader directs
insurgents in Nakhonay village and conducts operations throughout Panjwa'i.
He also works with explosive device experts in the district. 

Intelligence tips led the Afghan-led force to the leader's suspected
compound in the district. After securing the compound, an Afghan member of
the force interviewed residents regarding the leader's location. Based on
the information provided, the force detained numerous individuals with
suspected ties to insurgent activity. The night operation was completed with
no shots fired and no civilians harmed. 

East 

In Khost province, a combined Afghan and coalition security force detained
two suspected insurgents during separate security operations targeting
Haqqani leadership in Sabari district, yesterday. The Afghan-led force
targeted two Haqqani leaders who are responsible for coordinating indirect
fire, roadside bomb and car bomb attacks against the Afghan National Army
operating in Sabari. 

Following intelligence tips, the force searched two compounds associated
with the leaders. During the initial operation the force detained one
suspected insurgent after interviewing residents. Later in the night at a
separate compound, the force detained one additional individual with
suspected ties to Haqqani activity. Throughout the search, the force ensured
the safety of the women and children. No shots were fired during the
operation. 

A combined Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected
insurgents during a security operation in Dzadran district, Paktiya
province, Friday. The Afghan-led force conducted the nighttime security
operation to capture a Haqqani network leader in the district. The targeted
leader is directly responsible for supply movements to support attacks and
insurgent operations in the district. 

After receiving several intelligence tips regarding Haqqani activity, the
security force searched for the leader at a compound in the district. During
the search, the force identified several suspected insurgents. The
individuals were transported with the force for further questioning and
possible detention. Throughout the search, the force ensured the safety of
the women and children. 

In Paktika province, a combined Afghan and coalition security force detained
several suspected insurgents during a security operation targeting a Haqqani
network leader in Orgun district, Friday. The leader directs suicide bomb
attacks, and is involved in foreign fighter and weapons facilitation. 

The Afghan-led force searched for the leader at an associated compound in
the district, based on multiple intelligence sources. While searching the
area, the security force came across several suspected insurgents. With the
help of resident interviews, the force was able to detain several suspected
insurgents for further questioning. Additionally, the security force
confiscated homemade bomb making materials, multiple AK-47 rifles and chest
racks. No shots were fired during the night operation and no civilians were
harmed. 

A combined Afghan and coalition security force operating in Logar province
detained several individuals with suspected ties to Taliban act

[osint] Where Did Jesus Say, "I Am God, Worship Me"?

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Answering Muslims 


The Islamoblog of Acts 17 Apologetics Ministries

Saturday, June 4, 2011

 

 Where Did Jesus Say, "I Am God, Worship Me"? 

The Qur’an commands Christians to judge by the Gospel:

Qur’an 5:47—“Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah hath revealed 
therein. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, 
they are (no better than) those who rebel.”

Thus, when Christians present their beliefs, it makes sense for Muslims to ask, 
“Could you show us where the Bible says that?” Christians should therefore be 
eager to present evidence from the Gospel, because Muslims cannot condemn us 
for doing what the Qur’an commands. Indeed, since the Qur’an affirms not only 
the Gospel, but also the Torah (Qur’an 5:43), Muslims cannot ignore what the 
Bible says without thereby rebelling against Islam.

Muslims around the world are being trained to ask Christians, “Where did Jesus 
say, ‘I am God, worship me,’ in those exact words?” However, if Muslims are 
suggesting that Jesus could only claim to be God by uttering a specific 
sentence, we may reply by asking, “Where did Jesus say, ‘I am only a prophet, 
don’t worship me,’ in those exact words?” The unreasonable demand for a 
particular statement, if applied consistently, would thus force Muslims to 
reject their own view!

Fortunately, we have a simple way to examine what Jesus said about himself. 
According to both the Bible and the Qur’an, there are certain claims that only 
God can truly make. For instance, God alone can correctly state that he created 
the universe. Of course, a mere human being can pronounce the words, “I created 
the universe,” but the statement would be false coming from anyone other than 
God. 

Hence, if Jesus said things that can only truly be said by God, we must 
conclude that Jesus claimed to be God. Interestingly, Jews, Christians, and 
Muslims agree on many of the claims that cannot be properly made by (or about) 
mere human beings. Let us consider a few of these.

THE FIRST AND THE LAST

Surah 57:3 of the Qur’an refers to Allah as “the First and the Last, the Most 
High and the Most Near.” The Old Testament agrees that God is the “First and 
the Last,” as we read in the Book of the prophet Isaiah:

Isaiah 44:6—Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD 
of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides Me.”

When “LORD” is written in all capitals in the Old Testament, the term refers to 
Yahweh, the creator of the universe. Since both the Bible and the Qur’an give 
the title “the First and the Last” to God, it should be quite shocking for 
Muslims to open the New Testament and read Revelation 1:17-18, where Jesus says:

“Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was 
dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of 
Hades.”

Would a mere prophet claim to be the “First and the Last”?

WHO FORGIVES SINS?

While one human being may sin against another human being, there is a sense in 
which all sin is rebellion against God. Similarly, while you and I may forgive 
one another for the wrongs we commit, only God can offer ultimate forgiveness. 
Thus, the prophet David could say to God, “Against You, You only, I have sinned

and done what is evil in Your sight” (Psalm 51:4), and the Prophet Daniel could 
declare, “To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have 
rebelled against Him” (Daniel 9:9).

The Qur’an agrees that ultimate forgiveness belongs to God, for it asks, “Who 
can forgive sins except Allah?” (3:135).

It might surprise Muslims to learn that, in the New Testament, Jesus claims the 
ability to forgive sins. In Mark 2, a paralyzed man is brought to Jesus in 
order to be healed. Jesus’ response leads the religious leaders to accuse him 
of blasphemy:

Mark 2:5-7—And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins 
are forgiven.” But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in 
their hearts, “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can 
forgive sins but God alone?”

The scribes correctly recognized that only God can forgive sins. Yet Jesus (who 
referred to himself as the “Son of Man”), knowing their thoughts, replied that 
“the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (Mark 2:10). He then 
healed the paralytic, proving that his claims were true.

THE LIGHT

In Psalm 27:1, the prophet David proclaims: “The LORD is my light and my 
salvation.” Similarly, the Qur’an declares that “Allah is the light of the 
heavens and the earth” (24:35). Yet Jesus tells his listeners that he is “the 
Light”:

John 8:12—“I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the 
darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

THE TRUTH

The prophet David refers to Yahweh as the “God of Truth” (Ps

[osint] al-Qaeda in Sinai

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Al-Qaeda in Sinai 

Saturday, 04 June 2011 10:36 P. David Hornik 

 
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It started early this week when a "senior Egyptian security official" told
  the Egyptian-based
Al-Hayyat TV channel that over 400 Al-Qaeda members had made their way into
the Sinai Peninsula. They were said to be composed of Palestinians,
Bedouins, and foreign Arabs, and Egyptian security forces were said to be
pursuing them since they were "planning to carry out terror attacks in
Egypt."

The official told Al-Hayyat that they had already carried out "attacks
against [Egyptian] security forces in the Sinai city of El Arish." 

The report seemed to gain credence on Monday when Israeli prime minister
Binyamin Netanyahu told
  the Knesset's Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee that "Egypt is having a hard time realizing
its sovereignty in Sinai. International terror organizations are stirring in
Sinai and their presence is increasing due to Sinai's connection to Gaza." 

Although Netanyahu left it vague, that "due to" can work both ways:
terrorists in Sinai, particularly if intent on attacking Israel, can make
their way into Gaza, and terrorists in Gaza-especially now that Egypt has
opened the Rafah crossing
 -can make their way into Sinai.

Although it may have gotten a significant boost this week, the problem of
Al-Qaeda and other global jihadist forces in Sinai is not new. Last February
5, a gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan was blown up
  in northern Sinai, and it
was blown up   again
on April 27. The attacks are attributed to local Bedouins, global jihadists,
or a collaboration between the two.

Last August, five rockets were fired
  from Sinai at the Israeli resort town of Eilat; one, the only one
to cause damage, instead hit the adjacent Jordanian town of Aqaba, killing
one and wounding five. Global jihadists were believed to be behind it.
Another rocket, also probably fired from Sinai, had hit Aqaba in April
without causing casualties.

Severe bombing attacks have also struck Egyptian targets in Sinai: in 2006,
one in Dahab that killed at least 23; in 2005, one in Sharm el-Sheikh that
killed 88; and a double bombing at the Taba and Ras al-Shitan resorts in
2004 that took at least 34 lives.

The mounting terror threat from Sinai puts Israel in a difficult dilemma.
Under the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, Israel withdrew from Sinai
while Egypt agreed to leave it demilitarized, deploying only police and
border guards there. But after the first gas-pipeline bombing last February
5, Israel-for the first time since the peace treaty's signing-allowed Egypt
to move military forces into the peninsula.

Though the two Egyptian battalions were supposed to put a lid on the growing
anarchy, just days later, Israel turned down
  an Egyptian request
to deploy additional forces, fearing "a complete breakdown of the peace
treaty with Cairo."

Upholding the peace treaty, then, means a growing presence for Al-Qaeda and
other global terror in Sinai, without adequate Egyptian-or any other-forces
to counter it. Derogating from the treaty means allowing Egypt-in the
post-Mubarak era that has seen rising extremism
  there-back into the peninsula, which borders Gaza to the north and
Israel itself to the south, and from which Egypt attacked Israel in 1948 and
1967.

Above all, the situation underlines the fragility of the peace-process
paradigm, which has become axiomatic in international diplomacy and assumes
that Israel can gain peace in return for territorial concessions.

As long as the Mubarak government-which, while violating almost all the
other terms of the peace treaty, never militarily attacked Israel-ruled
Egypt, it could be claimed that the paradigm was at least succeeding in the
Egyptian case. Today, with Sinai becomi

[osint] Gunfight At DC Corral: Palin vs Obama

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Gunfight At DC Corral: Palin vs Obama. 

Saturday, 04 June 2011 10:52 Lloyd Marcus 

 
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Editor's note: my money is on Palin, cuz if she can take down a bear or an
elk, she can certainly take care of a rat!

I'm sorry guys. Every time you flood me with emails attempting to convince
me Palin can not win; is too toxic, not smart enough, a hypocrite and is
only in it for the money, the courageous woman boldly does another
extraordinary interview that makes me stand up and cheer, "Sarah Palin, you
go girl! I love you!"

On the Hannity show, Palin launched another "in your face" attack on Obama,
the GOP and the liberal media. I LOVE IT! http://fxn.ws/cxt8dv

Palin_Motorcycle_GangNothing frustrates me more than GOP candidates walking
on eggs cautious not to offend or anger the despicable, lying, agenda driven
and evil liberal media. Why should we show respect for characterless people
who are committed to lying and putting a negative spin on everything we say
and do? The liberal media's mission is to politically "kill" the tea party.
Get it?

Sarah Palin gets it. Palin does not give a rat's behind about what the
liberal media thinks of her.

On numerous occasions, without the slightest hint of reservation or FEAR,
Palin has attacked Obama "the man"; his lies, his anti-American
associations, his socialist agenda, his assault on our freedom, liberty and
culture and his horrific record, thus far. Thank You Sarah Palin! God bless
you!

I realize I sound like a broken record, but I can not express the following
point strongly enough. To beat Obama and "his media" in 2012, our candidate
MUST embrace Palin's aggressive fearless battle plan.

It has been said, only a fool brings a knife to a gunfight. Without
restraint or mercy, Obama, the democrats and Obama's liberal media gang will
show up at the 2012 DC fight for the White House with mega guns firing at
the tea party and the republican presidential candidate.

Any republican presidential candidate who is timid due to the historical
context of Obama's presidency saying, "God bless Obama's heart. He meant
well, but his policies have failed" is like entering this crucial battle for
our country with a butter knife. Such a restrained effort would insure
political death to our side and the end of America as we know it.

Patriots, we need a fearless political gunslinging hero. And so far, our
heroic pistol packin' mama is Sarah Palin.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Vice Chair, www.CampaignToDefeatObama.com
 

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[osint] Sink To the Bottom With Me

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What do you think about Global Warming? It doesn't matter what you think.
Not if you live in New York, Berlin, Yokohama or Karachi that is. On behalf
of his C40 group, Mayor Bloomberg explained
  to the BBC, "Your job is not to ask the public where they want to go and
get behind them. Your job is to tell the public".

But the BBC knows that already. They've been telling the public what to
think for a long time now. And they don't need lessons on that from some
parvenu yank billionaire. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs and
don't presume to teach the BBC how to disdainfully ignore public opinion for
the public's own good.

While Bloomberg "leads from the front" in his Large Cities Climate
Leadership Group or C40 group (the manufacture of Orwellian acronyms
accounts for 30 percent of carbon emissions from climate change propaganda),
New Yorkers are busy protesting in the streets

over firehouse closings. Residents of the city are not concerned about
global warming. They're worried about local incineration. Forget the tides
and do something about the firehoses.

Not that his Imperial Mayorality is listening. Real leaders don't listen to
the public. They drive tanks over them. As the mayors of Shanghai and
Beijing, also members of the LCCLG or C40, know. The peasants may cry for
firehouses, but what do they know anyway. Each firehouse emits carbon. Every
time a fire engine races off to save an apartment building, metric tons of
carbon is released into the software algorithms of climate change
researchers. Better to let the peasants burn and save the planet.

"If you ask the public 'is there global warming,' 'is in 50 years the earth
going to be dramatically different or perhaps uninhabitable,' their eyes
roll. Nobody can think 50 years in advance", says Bloomy. Nobody clearly
doesn't include the mayor. Fortunately the city is blessed with a leader who
couldn't see a snow emergency coming two days ahead of time, but has no
trouble parting the mists of time and seeing half a century into the future.

While snow was falling on Brooklyn, the Prophet of City Hall was pondering a
distant future when the whole city would be underwater because too many
trucks have been crossing the BQE. Forget Mayor. It's time the city got
Bloomberg a crystal ball, a deck of tarot cards and something to gird his
loins with, if he has any, and appoint him our seer and prophet. We've been
shamefully wasting the man's time on minutiae like our worries about burning
to death because we only have a skeletal fire department, when we should be
coming to him with questions about the strange world of the future.

"Tell me Mayor Mike, will there still be mayors in the future?" "Yes, but
they will all be underwater, have gold skin and be worshiped as gods at
international conferences."

It's funny until you remember that the snow emergency which the city
neglected 
in order to participate in planning conferences for Waterworld actually cost
human lives. People died because the ruling class was too busy wrapped up in
an underwater end of days to attend to petty matters like doing their jobs.
In the winter they died in ice, while officials planned to combat the rising
tides of the future with bicycle lanes. Will they burn to death in summer
because officials are too busy pushing roof painting to consider the people
living under those roofs as anything but carbon waste on two legs?

Our governments are being run by a cult that makes Harold Camping seem
positively rational. An apocalyptic elite that proudly celebrates its
disdain for the common man. Mediocre politicians guided by a science they
don't understand, allowing themselves to be weaponized into tools of mass
regulation in the name of a philosophy that sees the human race as one giant
waste product. Plastic cups of Kool Aid with instructions to drink them in
atonement to Gaia haven't come in the mail yet, but at the rate we're going
it's only a matter of time.

The problem isn't Bloomberg. He's just the tackiest member of an
international coterie. A billionai

[osint] Amicus brief filed against Obamacare in federal court

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A public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government
corruption, announced Friday that it has filed an amicus curiae (friend of
the court) brief in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare
(Susan Seven-Sky, et al v Eric Holder, Jr. et al.(No. 11-5047)). 

 

The lawsuit is currently on appeal before the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Judicial Watch's brief challenges the constitutionality of the law's
"Requirement to Maintain Minimal Essential Coverage," or the "individual
mandate," which forces citizens to purchase health care insurance or remit a
"shared responsibility payment" to the government.

 

As Judicial Watch notes, the key question for the court is whether an
individual who does not purchase health insurance has performed an
"activity" that can be regulated by Congress under the Commerce Clause of
the Constitution.

 

The Supreme Court's Commerce Clause jurisprudence requires that Congress
regulate an activity, as opposed to not engaging in an activity. Common
sense alone compels the conclusion that an individual who does not purchase
health insurance has not taken an action or exerted effort. 

 

The individual does not even need to take a "mental action."  The individual
does not need to make a decision not to purchase health insurance; the
individual simply will not purchase health insurance.

 

Since Congress has regulated this passivity, Congress has overstepped the
Commerce Clause's boundaries in attempting to regulate Appellants.  Indeed,
it seems that Congress has put the cart before the horse.  In an effort to
regulate Appellants, Congress is attempting to compel them into action
through the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), according to
Judicial Watch in a press statement

 

 

 

Recognizing the "weak underpinnings" of its conclusion that those who do
nothing are performing an activity, the lower court attempted to bolster its
argument by reasoning that Congress can regulate individuals today because
someday everyone will seek medical treatment and this will have an effect on
interstate commerce. 

 

However, as Judicial Watch noted, in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549
(1995), the Supreme Court dismissed this approach as "pil[ing] inference
upon inference."  The Supreme Court reasoned, "If we were to accept [such]
arguments we are hard pressed to posit any activity by an individual that
Congress is without power to regulate."

 

"Obamacare represents an unprecedented government power grab.  And if
Obamacare is allowed to remain the law of the land, the federal government's
ability to run our lives will be virtually unlimited," said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. 

 

"Obamacare is seen by many a fundamental threat to our nation's
constitutional order.  We hope this court abides by the plain meaning of the
U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent and rules Obamacare
unconstitutional," Fitton added.

 

As Judicial Watch noted in its brief, by current count, at least 20 lawsuits
have been filed challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare, with the
"individual mandate" representing the main point of contention.  Two courts
have ruled this mandate unconstitutional, while three other federal courts,
including the lower court in this case, have upheld the constitutionality of
the mandate.

 

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[osint] Israeli Gunfire Kills 4 at Border

[Beowulf]

Israeli Gunfire Kills 4 at Border, Syrian TV Says


Published June 05, 2011

| Associated Press


Read more:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/05/israel-on-high-alert-for-possible-bo
rder-unrest/#ixzz1OPA2f0AR

 

June 5:
Lebanese army soldiers sit on their truck as they patrol the
Lebanese-Israeli border near the village of Kfar Kila, south
Lebanon.

AP

June 5: Lebanese army soldiers sit on their truck as they patrol the
Lebanese-Israeli border near the village of Kfar Kila, south Lebanon.

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights -- Israeli troops opened fire across the Syrian
frontier on Sunday to disperse hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who
stormed the border of the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Syrian
television reported four people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed by
Israeli gunfire.

The unrest marked the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast
war.

The Israeli military accused Syria of instigating the disturbances to
deflect attention from its bloody crackdown on a popular uprising at home.

Israel had promised to prevent a repeat of a deadly protest last month, in
which hundreds of people burst across the frontier, entered the Golan and
clashed with Israeli forces. Thousands of troops were mobilized in
anticipation of possible unrest.

"Unfortunately, extremist forces around us are trying today to breach our
borders and threaten our communities and our citizens. We will not let them
do that," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet. He said
security forces had been ordered to show "maximum restraint."

Despite Israel's warnings, hundreds of demonstrators -- a mix of
Palestinians and their Syrian supporters -- passed by a Syrian police
outpost early Sunday and marched to the barbed-wire lined trench the Israeli
military dug along the border after last month's unrest. Protesters waved
Palestinian flags and threw rocks and trash over the fence, though none
appeared to have crossed the line.

As the crowd reached the border, soldiers shouted warnings through
megaphones against crossing the border. "Anybody who gets close to the fence
is endangering his life," they said.

Israeli troops opened fire, sending crowds of demonstrators running in
panic. Several wounded people were taken away by demonstrators, but dozens
more continued heading toward the trench. Those evacuating casualties
shouted "shahid," or "martyr."

State-run Syrian TV reported four dead, including a 12-year-old boy, and 15
wounded. There was no immediate confirmation of the report.

The Israeli military put the blame on the Syrian regime, which has killed
more than 1,200 citizens during three months of demonstrations against the
Alawite-dominated government of President Bashar Assad.

"This is an attempt to divert international attention from the bloodbath
going on in Syria," said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military
spokeswoman.

"In the end, we are guarding our border," she said. "I wish they had obeyed
our verbal warnings, but they chose instead to clash with the soldiers."

The Israeli military said troops fired warning shots into the air after
people started approaching the border fence, then issued verbal warnings to
protesters to stay away. After some of the protesters reached the fence,
soldiers opened fire at their legs, the military said.

Residents of Majdal Shams, ethnic Druse who remain Syrian citizens while
living on the Israeli side of the frontier, watched the protest from
rooftops, booing each time the military tried to speak, nearly drowning out
the warnings.

When three dozen villagers shouted, "Zionists, get out. Arab land will be
free," Druse leaders in white skullcaps and black robes angrily told them to
be quiet to keep the situation from escalating.

At one point, several dozen protesters stopped along a hillside to pray,
bowing to the ground in unison. Later, protesters split into several groups,
trying to throw off the army as they unsuccessfully searched for ways to get
across the barbed-wire trench. A burning tire was thrown into the trench,
sending a plume of smoke into the air.

The demonstrators moved toward the frontier even after a dozen people were
killed in last month's unrest, which marked the annual day that Arabs mourn
the establishment of Israel. They acted even after organizers in Syria and
Lebanon canceled plans to march to their frontiers with Israel.

Forty-four years ago to the day, the 1967 Mideast war erupted. Within six
days, Israel conquered the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; Syria
lost the Golan Heights and Jordan lost the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Israel has since returned the Sinai and evacuated Gaza -- but the agony of
defeat and the continued Israeli occupation of the Golan, West Bank and east
Jerusalem still torments the Arab world.

Things were relatively calm on Israel's other borders on Sunday.

About 400 Gaza

[osint] US Forces the Fall of Another US Ally

[Beowulf]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/speculation-grows-on-yemeni-presidents-condition/2011/06/04/AGpN9xIH_print.html

 


Yemeni crowds celebrate after president transfers power, flies to Saudi Arabia


By Ernesto Londono 
  
and Sudarsan Raghavan 
 
, Published: June 4 | Updated: Sunday, June 5, 6:20 AM


CAIRO — Hours after the Yemen’s president flew to Saudi Arabia for treatment of 
wounds sustained in a rocket attack, thousands of demonstrators flocked to the 
streets of the capital Sunday to celebrate what they billed as the latest 
ouster of an Arab autocrat.

“The Yemeni people have been born again,” cried out Fatima Ahmad, 72, who was 
among those who walked to Change Square in Sanaa to celebrate the president’s 
departure. 

Thousands waved flags, painted their faces with the colors of the national flag 
and exchanged congratulations in a capital that had become a battleground in 
recent days 

 .

“We have deported Ali,” some chanted. “The people have toppled the regime.” 

Saleh transferred power temporarily to his vice president, Abed Rabbo Mansour 
Hadi, after boarding a flight to Saudi Arabia late Saturday. He was wounded 

  in a rocket attack on the presidential palace Friday afternoon. 

The vice president on Sunday met with U.S. Ambassador Gerald M. Feierstein, 
Yemen’s news agency reported. The two discussed steps required to maintain a 
cease-fire between government forces and tribal militias. They also spoke about 
Yemen’s the political opposition, known as the Joint Meeting Parties. 

Yemeni officials have not called Saleh’s departure an abdication from power, 
but analysts say the longtime leader 

 , who had been a key U.S. ally on the fight against al-Qaeda, is unlikely to 
return as president.

Despite the jubilation in Sanaa, bloodshed continued in the southern city of 
Taiz, where gunmen attacked the presidential palace, killing four soldiers, the 
Associated Press reported. 

Saleh’s sudden departure comes as the country is on the verge of civil war and 
economic collapse, with a violent power struggle among rival tribesmen underway 
and no clear plan for a transition of power if Saleh were to permanently 
surrender office.

For months, Saleh had resisted intense pressure from within Yemen, the Middle 
East’s poorest nation, and from neighboring countries and the United States to 
step down. With an active al-Qaeda branch in Yemen — one ambitious enough to 
claim the mantle of Osama bin Laden in the near future — Saleh’s departure 
could pose one of the most significant policy challenges for the Obama 
administration in the months ahead.

A Pentagon spokesman acknowledged late Saturday that the crisis in Yemen was 
already affecting U.S. efforts to fight terrorism.

“The current protracted political issues are having an adverse impact on the 
security situation in Yemen,” said Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, and 
the United States is “continuing to review and assess all aspects of our 
security assistance.”

But he indicated that Washington was already looking beyond Saleh’s rule. “Our 
shared interest with the Yemeni government in defeating al-Qaeda goes beyond 
one person,” Lapan said. The U.S. military has an unspecified number of 
counterterrorism trainers in Yemen, who the Pentagon has said remain in the 
country, although the civil unrest had affected their work.

In Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, an official in the president’s office confirmed 
that Saleh had left the country for Saudi Arabia and said that his vice 
president had taken over his duties. The White House said President Obama’s 
counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, spoke with Hadi by telephone Saturday 
but provided no details, news services reported.

The AP quoted the state-run Saudi Press Agency as reporting that Saleh had 
arrived in the country. 

Most of Saleh’s family accompanied him on the flight to Saudi Arabia, AP 
reported, citing a government official. But Saleh’s son Ahmed, whom he was 
grooming as a successor, was believed to have stayed behind, AP reported.

Christopher Boucek, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International 
Peace, said violence in Yemen could become even more intense, given the 
animosity between Saleh’s supporters and those of the Ahmar clan, whose 
tribesmen have spearheaded the effort to topple Saleh.

“His son and nephews may try to finish off the Ahmars,” Boucek said. “The 
regime’s power lies in the military and security branches, the guys who have 

[osint] FW: ANTI-MULLAH DO WE HAVE A BRAIN DAMAGED LOW CLASS THUG IN THE OVAL OFFICE?

[Beowulf]

 


DO WE HAVE A BRAIN DAMAGED LOW CLASS THUG IN THE OVAL OFFICE?


 

 

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/05/do-we-have-brain-damaged-low-class-thug.html

 


Wednesday, May 25, 2011


DO WE HAVE A BRAIN DAMAGED LOW CLASS THUG IN THE OVAL OFFICE? 


He writes  24 May 2008 under his signature at Westminster Abbey - instead of 
2011! That is not normal under any circumstances unless you have a blank brain 
moment - scary for us if that person is in the Oval Office running the country 
(sadly, into perdition).

By the Way  OBAMBI is 50% White, 43.75% Arab and 6.25% African. He does not 
even qualify as an African American under Federal regulations for ethnic 
minorities status!



Some reasons to believe he has brain damage:

1. He was - by his own book -  an extensive  drug user in his younger days. Did 
he fry his brain?

2. He has enormous skull scarring that points to heavy HEAD trauma injury or 
major surgery. No explanation has ever emerged. (Nor in anything else about 
him) .

3. He has deep neck scarring pointing to major surgery - possibly lymph nodes 
that could indicate cancer intervention or serious infection. 

(See photos for 2 and 3 at)

  
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-is-man-calling-himself-president.html

4. He cannot speak coherently without his teleprompters (or has STILTED, 
repeated hesitations if he tries) and uses the electronic aids even for 
addressing staff meetings, FIFTH GRADE school children (Graham Elementrary 
School) and even miscues and JUST READS  what the teleprompter says when it is 
off subject or out of synch without apparent input from his brain.


 


 

 
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oHlyLqF82vs/Td3fxvVV4oI/DZY/8IUTIs3Nstg/s640/teleprompter.jpg


10 person staff meeting!

 


 

 
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rN89EDyHWIc/Td3gNW3_x4I/DZc/fAZWtqnbQCY/s640/teleprompter2.jpg


Elementary School - note children!

 

IT'S MY PAGE! AND ONLY MINE. THE WHOLE PAGE!

 

 
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tVyQFLsZwao/Td0_r7I66iI/DZM/nM_XtvgoMbY/s640/oba+2008.jpg




He got the date wrong, didn’t cross the t’s in great and commemorate, and made 
a punctuation error by adding a comma after heritage.

ALSO he IGNORANTLY totally miscued his speech at the State Dinner:


The president paused, the guests stood, and the orchestra prepared to play.


But the president wasn’t done speaking.


“The vitality –“ the president said before the orchestra began…


“To the Queen,” the president finally said.


He lifted his glass to her, she smiled a bit uncomfortably.


But because the song was playing, no one drank from his or her glass, including 
the president, who put his glass down on the table. Later, the Queen raised her 
glass to him, to everyone but did not drink.


Protocol, apparently, requires the toastmaster to wait until after “God Save 
the Queen” plays and then begin the toast. But the almighty O waits for nobody 
so he RUDELY launched straight into his  statement.

The Black Irish must be rolling in their graves. The Kenyans are pissing in the 
jungles (they were under British colonial rule for decades). Michele’s family 
might have been slaves. Obama’s father was a communist, a Soviet-oriented 
stooge, and a failed one at that, and his adopted tribe, the Luo, are ruled by 
another marxist, the Odinga klan.




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8:09 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WND

 

 


President Obama (White House photo)

This is the first of three articles on the criminal complaint that 
scanner-expert Doug Vogt filed last week with the FBI.

An international expert on scanners and document-imaging software filed a  

 22-page criminal complaint with the FBI, charging that the long-form birth 
certificate released by the White House is criminally fraudulent.

"What the Obama administration released is a PDF image that they are trying to 
pass off as a Certificate of Live Birth Long Form printed on green security 
paper by the Hawaiian Health Department," Doug Vogt writes, "but this form is a 
created forgery."

 

 Get the inside details on what could be the most serious constitutional crisis 
in modern history, in "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack 
Obama is Not Eligible to be President," autographed by the author!

Vogt's criminal complaint asserts: "I have irrefutably proven that the 
Certificate of Live Birth that President Obama presented to the world on April 
27, 2011, is a fraudulently created document put together using the Adobe 
Photoshop or Illustrator programs, and the creation of this forgery of a public 
document constitutes a class B felony in Hawaii and multiple violation

[osint] Pro Bin-Laden Rally In Gaza Strip: That is the Man Who Brought the Americans to Their Knees'

[Beowulf]

The man who is feeding the fishes, thanks to the Americans.  Muslims sure
love losers.

 

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Pro Bin-Laden Rally In Gaza Strip: '[Osama Bin Laden] is the Man Who
Shattered the Crosses; That is the Man Who Brought the Americans to Their
Knees'


Speakers at Pro-Bin Laden Rally in Gaza Strip: 'That is the Man Who
Shattered the Crosses.That is the Man Who Brought the Americans to Their
Knees'

Following are excerpts from footage from pro-Osama bin Laden rallies in the
Gaza Strip, which was posted on the Internet on May 20, 2011: 

 

 

At Gaza Rally: "America is the Enemy of Allah"

Crowds: "There is no god but Allah. 

"America is the enemy of Allah." [.]

At Rafah Rally: "Osama Destroyed America"

Crowds: "Our souls and our blood we will give for you, oh Osama. 

"Our souls and our blood we will give for you, oh Osama. 

"Our souls and our blood we will give for you, oh Osama." 

Demonstrator: "There is no god but Allah." 

Crowds: "There is no god but Allah." 

Demonstrator: "Sheikh Osama is loved by Allah." 

Crowds: "Sheikh Osama is loved by Allah." 

Demonstrator: "There is no god but Allah." 

Crowds: "There is no god but Allah." 

Demonstrator: "Sheikh Osama is loved by Allah." 

Crowds: "Sheikh Osama is loved by Allah."

Demonstrator: "Osama destroyed America."

Crowds: "Osama destroyed America." 

Demonstrator: ".using a civilian plane." 

Crowds: ".using a civilian plane." 

Demonstrator: "Say: 'Allah Akbar.'" 

Crowds: "Allah Akbar!" 

Demonstrator: "Beware, oh Pakistan." 

Crowds: "Beware, oh Pakistan." 

Demonstrator: ".of the soldiers of Taliban." 

Crowds: ".of the soldiers of Taliban."

"Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad Is Returning" 

Demonstrator: "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews." 

Crowds: "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews." 

Demonstrator: ".the army of Muhammad is returning." 

Crowds: ".the army of Muhammad is returning." [.]

Sheikh Munir Al-'Aydi: "This blessed man, Osama, Allah's mercy upon him, has
given his money and his soul for the Jihad for the sake of Allah. At a time
when real men are few, he united the nation around monotheism. Allah's mercy
upon you, oh Osama. You were good in your life, and you were good in your
death. That man Osama thwarted the American plan in this region, and did
what no man has ever done before, especially in our times. He is not a man
like all men. He is a man who was true to the pledge he made before Allah. 

"That is the man who said: 'I pledge before Allah that America and its
people will enjoy no security before we enjoy true security in Palestine.'
He was always devoted to the land of Palestine. He was always devoted to the
liberation of the holy places. He was always devoted to the instating of the
law of Allah. [.] 

"Today, this proud lion has been dumped in the sea by the country of heresy
and prostitution, America. They wanted him dead or alive. [.] 

"That is the man who brandished his weapon to fight the enemies of Allah. He
led the Global Front for Jihad against America and its allies, the
worshippers of the cross. He rightfully earned the title of the imam of our
times."

Sheikh Munir Al-'Aydi: Bin Laden Is "The Man Who Shattered the Crosses"

Demonstrator: "Say: 'Allah Akbar.' 

Crowds: "Allah Akbar!" 

Demonstrator: "Say: 'Allah Akbar.'" 

Crowds: "Allah Akbar!" 

Demonstrator: "Say: 'Allah Akbar.' 

Crowds: "Allah Akbar!" 

Sheikh Munir Al-'Aydi: "That is the man who shattered the crosses. That is
the man who brought the Americans to their knees. That is the man who
humiliated the hypocrites in the East and West. That man through whom Allah
distinguished men of truth from men of falsehood.  [.] 

"In the days of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, when there were claims that the Koran was
man-made, the scholars of those times would say that you could distinguish
between a man of truth and a hypocrite by his love for Imam Ahmad. In our
times, we too say that you can tell a believer from a hypocrite by his love
for Osama bin Laden." 

Crowds: "Allah Akbar! 

"Allah Akbar! 

"Allah Akbar! 

"Allah Akbar!" 

Sheikh Munir Al-'Aydi: "You are not dead, oh Osama. You live on in the
hearts of us all. Osama lives on in the heart of every man. All our sons are
Osama. Our entire nation is Osama." [.]


 

 



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[osint] EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADFER AL-QARADAWI: "[MODERATE MUSLIMS] ACCEPT OFFENSIVE JIHAD, AND ATTACKING THE INFIDELS IN THEIR LANDS"

[Beowulf]

There are no "moderate" Muslims.only Muslims.

 

B

 


Friday, June 03, 2011
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/egypts-muslim-brothe
rhood-leadfer-al-qaradawi-.html


EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADFER AL-QARADAWI: "[MODERATE MUSLIMS] ACCEPT
OFFENSIVE JIHAD, AND ATTACKING THE INFIDELS IN THEIR LANDS"


 
 0218-OQARADAWI-egypt-prayers_full_600
 
 Photo:Yusuf al-Qaradawi returned from
Qatar to rally hundreds of thousands at Tahrir Square today in his first
public speech since 1981.

The new! free! Egypt belches more rotten poisonous gas. This from the leader
of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt -- outlawed under Mubarak, now welcomed
by millions of devout, authentic Muslims.

 
 Al-Qaradawi: "[Moderate Muslims] Accept Offensive Jihad, and
Attacking the Infidels in Their Lands"  Translating Jihad (hat tip Marty)

The following is a translation from an excerpt of Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi's
Fiqh al-Jihad, which was posted on IslamOnline.net. Here al-Qaradawi defends
the position of those he terms 'moderates' from attacks by 'extremists' who
argue that moderates don't accept offensive jihad. Al-Qaradawi argues that
to the contrary moderates do accept offensive jihad, including raids into
enemy territory, and gives some reasons for which they would accept it.

This is interesting in light of statements of Muslim apologists and
spokesmen in the West, who routinely argue that Islam really means an inner
spiritual struggle against sin, but inasmuch as it does refer to warfare, it
is purely defensive. But when you look at the justifications al-Qaradawi
gives for offensive jihad, you find that by his definition even the
'moderate' Muslims accept offensive jihad against the infidels under almost
any pretense.

Translated from IslamOnline.net,
 8 January 2011 (I previously translated the
first half of this article
 here):

 
 

...I want to clarify here the difference between the moderates and
extremists, or the "defensive (jihadists)" and "offensive (jihadists)", as
they are called by some.

Some of the offensive (jihadists) have not been fair to those who hold the
opposing view. They have put words in their mouths which they did not say,
and accused them of that which they are innocent. They say: "They (the
defensive jihadists) do not accept offensive jihad under any circumstance,
in any form, or for any reason. They do not believe jihad is legitimate
except in one condition, which is if Muslims are attacked in their homes and
lands." This is how they depict the opinion of the moderates or the
defensive (jihadists). 

I think they are not being fair with the opposing side, and are not being
precise or honest in presenting their views. Whoever reads their [i.e. the
moderates'] opinions, will find that they accept offensive jihad, and
attacking the infidels in their lands, for several reasons, including the
following: 

1- To ensure the freedom to propagate the call to Islam, to prevent fitna in
the religion (of Islam), and to remove the physical obstacles which prevent
the call to Islam from reaching the multitudes of people. This was the
reason for the conquests of the rightly-guided (caliphs) and the companions
(of the Prophet), as well as those who followed them in righteousness. (They
fought) to remove the power of the tyrants who controlled the necks and
minds of men, and who said what Pharaoh said to those of his people who
believed (in Islam): "Have you believed before I gave you permission to
believe?" This is the embodiment of the goal expressed in the saying of the
Almighty: "Fight them on until there is no more fitna." 

2- To ensure the security of the Islamic state and its borders, when they
are threatened by the enemies (of the Islamic state) who lie in wait and
conspire against it. This is what is termed in our present day "preemptive
war." This is one of the prerogatives of the ruler, and is in accordance
with the right to self-defense. Most of the Islamic conquests were of this
type of preemptive war, after the Islamic state was attacked early during
the reign of the Prophet by the two great kingdoms of Persia and Byzantium.
The conflict with Byzantium began with the battles of Mu'ta and Tabuk, and
the conflict with Persia began with Chosroes tearing up the Book o

[osint] Malcolm X, Nation of Islam and Shaykh Abdalqadir

[Beowulf]

Malcolm X, Nation of Islam and Shaykh Abdalqadir: Lee Jay Walker, Modern
Tokyo Times


cid:A5967AB7-074C-4626-B942-AF0862E29F7B@cg.shawcable.net

http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=2856



Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi was born Ian Dallas in the United Kingdom and
today thousands of converts have followed his thinking during Islamic dawah.


He fully understands that Muslim apostates in the Hadiths face death but
like “any hypocrite” Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi will use the moderation of
democratic nations in order to focus on stealth jihad.

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi is not a single individual who is somehow fusing
anti-capitalist forces with Islam because it is clear that many “left-wing”
organizations are turning a blind eye to reality. Therefore, in order to
understand how to defeat the stealth jihadists it is essential to understand
the warped mindset and irrationality of their thinking.

Democratic societies have one major weakness and this is “toleration” and
allowing enemies from within to spread ideologies which threaten the nation
state. Therefore, the religious and secular balance within many nations is
being threatened by an Islamic missionary movement which desires the
implementation of Islamic Sharia law in the long term. 

Islamic kitman and stealth jihadists will use any means possible in order to
Islamize nations and to change domestic laws. The Malcolm X film sums up the
blindness of America because this film, just like Malcolm X, was used by
Islamists in order to garner in more Afro-American converts to Islam and
followers from other ethnic groups.

Yet, the real Malcolm X espoused hatred on the basis of what he saw but what
he could not see, then he followed blindly, and this is where stealth
jihadists have a higher objective.

Malcolm X on his travels to Africa negated to tell his supporters that the
Islamic Arab invasions which began in the 7th century and which is still
enslaving Africans today in nations like Mauritania and Sudan; was all done
in accordance with the teachings of Islam and the Hadiths which support the
enslavement of non-Muslims during Islamic jihad.

Indeed, when Malcolm X visited Saudi Arabia he also forgot to tell his
followers that slavery was in full flow in Saudi Arabia for much of the
twentieth century. More important, slavery in Saudi Arabia of Africans and
others was a reality when he had converted to Islam. Also, slavery only
stopped in Saudi Arabia after non-Muslim nations put enormous pressure on
this nation to stop this barbaric practice. 

Despite this, elements within hip-hop and the myths of Malcolm X and the
Nation of Islam just keep on obtaining more and more converts. Yet, many
Christian churches appear to be lacking in thinking and instead of
challenging these lies they appear to have accepted or turned insular.

If Afro-Americans are seen to be “Uncle Tom’s” if they don’t follow a
recreated version of the slave owning Mohammed then what does that make
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam? 

It would appear to make Malcolm X “a Triple Mohammed” who not only betrayed
the history and reality of Africa which had been enslaved long before a
small minority of European nations got involved in the slave trade; but even
worse, he turned to an individual called Mohammed who owned slaves, had sex
with concubines and supported the enslavement of non-Muslims via Islamic
jihad.

On this note, I will return to Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi who is fusing
anti-capitalism alongside the myths of Mohammed and equality. 

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi in his article called The Collapse of the
Terrorist Dialect states the following:

“The present world situation is marked by the pessimistic unity of all its
commentators who confirm that a whole system once seriously flawed has now
collapsed utterly. The dual pillars that upheld world trade and political
order have fallen in on each other. With the disintegration of the financial
system, its instruments and institutions, has come the disgrace of the
despised political class.”

“The system had only one set of cards left to play – to distract the
awakening billions of the world’s poor. Terror. The terror-event as
instrument of removing civic freedoms (which can lead to protest and change
of regime) and of enslaving the masses in obedience to the State, not seen
as tyranny, which it is, but as the necessary protection of the endangered
civic arena.”

“John Buchan wrote: “The Roman Empire fell in the end because of the
pressure of the barbarians on its frontiers, and because of the ruin of the
middle classes within by insensate burdens, and the degradation of the
proletariat into a frivolous impoverished rabble.”

“The second half of the religion is following the Messenger in all trade and
contracts with honour and without usury or increase inside the exchange,
along with real-value instruments of exchange like gold and silver.”



Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, just like Malcolm X, but based on completely

[osint] Palestinian Leaders Honor Their Terrorists

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PA Leaders Honor Their Terrorists


http://shoebat.com/videos/paHonor.php

We are told by the left that terrorists blow themselves up because of their
abject poverty and desperation. Here is a dinner with everybody dressed in
nice suits and attire at a party honoring families of terrorists. Most of
the terrorists who are being honored carried out their crimes after the Oslo
peace accord was signed by Arafat.

The world and even our own political leaders need to ask ourselves how
corrupt we are, that we would tolerate "making peace" with such duplicitious
and evil people.

"They have cast lots for My people, they have given a boy (Israel as
payment) for a harlot (false religion of Islam), and sold a girl (Israel)
for wine (oil), that they may drink. Joel 3:3


 


 


 



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[osint] Supreme Leader Stresses Iran's Support for "Undivided Palestine" for Palestinians - Not Jews

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Supreme Leader Stresses Iran's Support for "Undivided Palestine"

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali
Khamenei dismissed the US and West's Middle-East peace plans as useless, and
reiterated that Palestine shoud remain undivided and be returned to the
Palestinians.





 

"Palestine is inseparable and it belongs to the Palestinians undivided,"
Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a large crowd of Iranian people at the
mausoleum of the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, South
of Tehran on Saturday. 

"They (enemies) wished to wipe Palestine off the world map, while they were
mistaken. Palestine will remain and will not be eliminated," the Leader
underscored. 

"Palestine will return to the arms of Islam, without any doubt," Ayatollah
Khamenei stated. 

Iranians from all walks of life gathered at the mausoleum of the late Imam
Khomeini to mourn the 22nd anniversary of the demise of the Founder of the
Islamic Republic,the late Imam Khomeini, and also to renew their allegiance
to his ideals. 

A number of top Iranian military and political officials as well as foreign
ambassadors and guests attended the ceremony. 

Every year, millions of Iranians from across the country travel to Tehran to
pay tribute to the late leader. 

Imam Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile to lead the Islamic
Revolution that toppled the Pahlavi monarchy back in 1979. 

Imam Khomeini passed away on June 3, 1989, ten years after leading the
uprising that put an end to the Pahlavi regime. 

 



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[osint] Federal Reserve Bank Flies Gay Pride Flag

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view
 &pageId=306945

 


Federal Reserve bank flies the rainbow flag


Officials working on 'response' after flood of complaints

  _  


Posted: June 04, 2011
12:00 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh
C 2011 WND 

 


http://www.wnd.com/images/110604rainbowflagfed.jpg
  Credit: Richmond
Times-Dispatch

A state delegate in Virginia has sent a letter to the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond,   demanding that it
remove a "rainbow" flag from the flagpole that also holds Old Glory. 

"Dear President [Jeffrey M.] Lacker," wrote state Delegate Bob Marshall,
"Flying the homosexual flag just under the American flag outside Richmond's
 Federal Reserve
Bank building is a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization." 

Marshall said the Federal Reserve policies are supposed to "contribute to
the strength and vitality of the U.S. economy," but "a flagpole in front of
a federal building is not a commercial or political message board." 

How to fight  
"politically correct" agendas? The prescription is Joseph Farah's "Taking
America Back"

"What does flying the homosexual flag, or any other similar display, have to
do with your central banking mission under the Federal Reserve Act passed by
Congress?" 

"The Richmond Fed's endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is
rejected by 6,000 years of Western religious and moral teaching. You want
the American people to trust your judgment in economic matters when your
spokesperson celebrates an attack on public morals? Why?" Marshall
continued. 

"Mr.Lacker, take down that flag!" 


http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/060311lackerletter.jpg

Marshall told WND that his letter to the bank must have "set off a
firecracker," because there had been hundreds of responses via email and the
like already. 

"This guy has no business taking an institution Congress created for
financial dealings and turning it into a political billboard," he said. 

  Bank spokesman
Jim Strader told WND that Marshall's letter had been delievered and "we are
reviewing his letter and we will respond." 

He refused to say what the response would be or when it would come. 

But he said the "pride flag is flying at our bank as a symbol of our
commitment to diversity and inclusion." 

He said bank managers got a request from "an employee group" and the request
to fly the flag was approved. 

Strader said it coincides with Barack Obama's "proclamation" that June is
the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." 

"This month . marks the 30th anniversary of the emergence of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic, which has had a profound impact on the LGBT community," Obama
said. "Though we have made strides in combating this devastating disease,
more work remains to be done, and I am committed to expanding access to
HIV/AIDS prevention and care." 

Strader refused to respond to questions about whether the statement of a
social agenda was a precedent for the bank, or whether other employee or
interest groups could take advantage of the forum and proclaim their
campaigns, also. 

"I can't comment on that," he said. 

He said the bank, too, has gotten comments on the "pride flag" flying in
front of the institution assigned to manage the nation's fiscal policy. 

Officials with the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors refused to reply to
WND requests for comment.   

But Marshall said, "This is a celebration of a behavior that is still a
class six felony in Virginia." 

This dispute is not the only headache the Federal Reserve could be facing.
WND recently reported on a series of grass-roots lawsuits that are being
developed against the Fed.
  


http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/paulmedium.jpg
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas

And U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas long has advocated an audit of the intensely
secret organization, as well as a shutdown of its operations. 

The lawsuit plans come from the PatriotStorm organization at its
SuetheFed.com   website. The plan envisions teams
of attorneys analyzing data, demanding information, verifying damages and
arguing court cases. 

"Our litigation plan will be loosely patterned after the tobacco litigation
model executed during the 1980s and 1990s; only far more organized,
coordinated and focused in order to provide shared access of all discovery
materials and briefs developed to all of our network law firms and
prosecutors nationwide," the website explains. 

"The litigation activities will be divided among three broad areas: a)
research; b) analysis and dissemination of discovery materials and briefs,
and c) litigat

[osint] Tennessee Passes Resolution Urging All Counties to Post the Ten Commandments in Courthouses

[Beowulf]

  


 
 Tennessee
Passes Resolution Urging All Counties to Post the Ten Commandments in
Courthouses


  doctorbulldog |
4 June, 2011 at 10:21 am | Categories:
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ACLU to get a bug up their rump in 3...2...1:
 
 
Guess what lawmakers want counties to post!
Resolution affirms government 'rooted in belief in Almighty God'
June 04, 2011 - By Drew Zahn -
 WND
 
"Throughout America's rich history," asserts a Tennessee House Resolution
that was passed 98-0 this week, "both the citizenry and their elected
officials alike have deeply respected the Ten Commandments, its profound
influence on the formation of American legal thought and its fundamental
place in the history of law and government."
 
Therefore, H.R. 107 declares, "This body hereby urges all Tennessee counties
to allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in their respective courthouses."
 
Rep. Todd Watson, author of the resolution, explains in its text, "It is
imperative that these revered tablets continue to grace our public
buildings, as reminders to this generation and the next of the vital role
the Ten Commandments and its Author have played in shaping our great
republic."
 
Coupled with the more than 90 percent of Tennessee counties that have
already adopted similar resolutions acknowledging the historical
significance of the Ten Commandments, H.R. 107 marks a bold fusillade in the
ongoing battle over America's Christian heritage, particularly in the arena
of constitutional law.
 
The battle became a national issue nearly a decade ago, when an Alabama
judge, Roy Moore, faced pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union and
other groups to remove a monument that Moore had constructed in the Alabama
Supreme Court building because it featured the Ten Commandments.
 
Moore, who had previously beaten an ACLU lawsuit over posting the
Commandments in his courthouse as a county circuit judge, nonetheless lost a
second ACLU charge and was removed from his office as the state's chief
justice over the ensuing monument controversy.
 
The Tennessee House's resolution urges its counties to likewise refuse to
bow to similar pressure.
 
The full text of the resolution is as follows:
 
WHEREAS, in order to preserve domestic tranquility and protect the blessings
of liberty, the foundation of any government must rest upon both law and
morality; and
 
WHEREAS, the underpinnings of our system of government are rooted in a
steadfast belief in Almighty God and the conviction that all morality,
justice and unalienable rights derive from his gracious hand; and
 
WHEREAS, most of the political theorists embraced by our Founding Fathers,
from Locke to Blackstone, espoused the Natural Law Theory, and as John
Quincy Adams explained, "the laws of nature and of nature's God . of course
presupposes the existence of a God, the moral ruler of the universe and a
rule of right and wrong, or just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all
institutions of human society and of government"; and
 
WHEREAS, the Founders' desire to publicly acknowledge God as the source of
America's strength and direction is reflected in many of our founding
documents and practices, from the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of
Independence to the National Motto and Thanksgiving Day celebrations; and
 
WHEREAS, since our nation's birth, federal, state and local governing bodies
have continued to invoke Divine guidance and celebrate the role religion has
played in American life by issuing faith-based proclamations and opening
each legislative session with prayer and supplication, a practice instituted
by the First United States Congress and which has continued unbroken for
more than two centuries; and
 
WHEREAS, throughout America's rich history, both the citizenry and their
elected officials alike have deeply respected the Ten Commandments, its
profound influence on the formation of American legal thought, and its
fundamental place in the history of law and government as a whole; and
 
WHEREAS, the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized the historical
importance of these sacred texts and even upheld Sunday closing laws, which
originated in the Fourth Commandment's exhortation to remember the Sabbath
Day and keep it holy; and
 
WHEREAS, countless depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments can be found
throughout our nation's capital as a testament to the Decalogue's undeniable
role in our country's legal tradition, including the magnificent displays
adorning the Supreme Court Building, the Library of Congress's Jefferson
Building, the National Archives, the Department of Justice, the Ronald

[osint] Shariah Law Will Not Stop at Your Home

[Beowulf]

 




YOU ARE MAKING AN IMPACT!!!

By you standing strong for our constitution and the basis by which our
forefathers crafted this document, we have successfully sent out over
291,443 faxes to our nation's leadership in protest of Shariah Law being
accepted in our courts. 

You are being heard! 

The liberal Congress is working overtime to make sure that our One Nation
Under God is ruined and becomes a basis for extreme and radical ideologies
the remove our rights as opposed to protecting our rights as American
Citizens. 

We must not stop! We must continue the fight and let our representatives in
our government know that we will not tolerate this being done to our justice
system. I've attached the campaign that we have sent earlier in the week,
again, asking for your support and encouraging you to get the message out. 

Please read this important update on what is continuing to happen with the
acceptance of Shariah Law and join us! Make your voice be known! Let's
continue to fax our Congress men and women! 

Arm in Arm!! 

Sincerely,

William Greene, President
RightMarch.com  

 





American Conservative, 

The Islamic Shariah Law has crept into a few legal courts inside this great,
exceptional country. And for me, and I believe you also, this is one step
too far. Sure, I believe in the "freedom of religion" for all people in the
United States. That's one of the cornerstones of our democracy that makes
our country great. As it says at the Statue of Liberty---"Give me your
tired, poor, huddled masses..." 

But when a radical religion mindset begins to interfere with our judicial
system, I believe we should stand up to that and tell it like it really is.
Do you agree? 

U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) introduced H.R. 973 which outlaws foreign law
from our U.S. Court system. She had 56 co-sponsors. Why aren't more
Congressmen committing to this very important bill? That's why we must fax
them to let them know how patriotic Americans truly feel. It is still in the
Subcommittee of the U.S. Congress and has been since March 9th. This bill is
too important to stay in a Committee for that long. Let's fax our
Congressmen to raise our voice of support. 

Certain legislative "norms" have already adopted Shariah Law. 

However, I want an adoptive, more prudential and effective strategy for
surviving Shariah's onslaught. Several policy and program changes are in
order; for instance: 

1.  United States policy makers, financiers, businessmen, judges,
journalist, community leaders and the public at large MUST be equipped with
an accurate understanding of the nature of Shariah and the necessity of
keeping America Shariah-free. 

At a minimum. This will entail resisting - rather than acquiescing to - the
concerted efforts now being made to allow that alien and barbaric legal code
to become established in this country as an alternate, parallel system to
the U.S. Constitution and the laws enacted pursuant to it. This is already
in effect for those who have taken an oath to "support and defend" the U.S.
Constitution, because the requirement is subsumed in that oath. 

United States government agencies and organizations should cease their
outreach to Muslim communities through Muslim Brotherhood fronts whose
mission is to destroy our country from within as such practices are both
reckless and counterproductive. These activities serve to legitimate,
protect, and expand the influence of our enemies. They conduce to no
successful legal outcome that cannot be better advanced via aggressive
prosecution of terrorists, terror-funders and other lawbreakers. 

They also discourage patriotic Muslims from providing actual assistance to
the United States government lest they be marked for ostracism or worse by
the Brothers and other Shariah-adherent members of their communities.

Please
  CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of our U.S.
Congress to support H.R. 973, to prevent the misuse of foreign law in United
States federal courts, including Shariah Law! Our inaction will permit our
Justice System be penetrated by radical, foreign religious laws! 

In keeping with Article VI of the United States Constitution, extend bans
currently in effect that bar members of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
from holding positions of trust in federal, state, or local governments or
the armed forces of the United States to those who espouse or support
Shariah. Instead, every effort should be made to identify and empower
Muslims who are willing to publicly denounce Shariah. 

Practices that promote Shariah - notably, Shariah-compliant finance and the
establishment or promotion in public spac3's or with public funds of
facilities and activities that give preferential treatment to Shariah's
adherents - are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and the freedoms it
enshrines and must be proscribed. 

*   Sedition is prohib

[osint] Syrian Protesters Get Smart

[Beowulf]

 

Syrian Protesters Get Smart

 

by Dan Ephron

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-06-04/syrian-protesters-
take-movement-underground-to-challenge-assad/

 

Their movement against Bashar al-Assad's regime began in the daylight, but
four months and 1,000 deaths later, Syrian demonstrators have taken a page
from other insurrections and taken their organizing to the shadows, reports
Dan Ephron.

They operate like an underground network, with false names, coded language,
and organized cells into which new members gain entry only if vouched for by
existing ones. In conversations among themselves, they avoid details that
would jeopardize the group if one of them is arrested and tortured.

As pro-democracy activists begin their fourth month of
 protests in Syria, a movement
that began in the relative daylight of the Internet is increasingly taking
the form of older insurrections, characterized by secrecy and suspicion.

Article - Ephron Syrian Opposition AP Photo 

The shift, described to The Daily Beast by two organizers who recently
slipped out of Syria, comes in response to the more sophisticated measures
the secret police of
 Bashar al-Assad's government are employing
against the movement. They include tracing Internet Protocol addresses to
the homes of leading activists and pressuring owners of Internet cafes to
name regular customers who might be steering the protests.

The two young men were attending a gathering in Turkey this week of the
usually fractious groups that
 oppose Assad's rule in Syria. Since
Assad's regime has barred foreign journalists from entering Syria to cover
the protests, their remarks illuminate an aspect of the insurrection that,
more than others across the region, has been difficult to follow.

Among other things, they point to a strategy of long-term rebellion by the
activists, who drew inspiration from the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt
but whose own insurrection has been met with brutal force. Human rights
groups estimate the number of dead so far in Syria at more than 1,000. When
the issue of casualties came up at the conference, some people in attendance
pointed to the experience of Algeria in the 1950s and '60s, where more than
a million people died in the fight for liberation from France.

Syria's secret police appear particularly rough with protesters from the
Alawite sect, the same ethnic group as Assad: "Alawites who are arrested are
tortured horribly."

"We have 20 cells across Damascus. We try to minimize contact so that if one
person is caught, not all are caught," one of the two young men said in a
90-minute interview in the lobby of a hotel in Antalya, Turkey, where the
opposition factions gathered. He gave his name as Mishel, age 24, and said
he studies geography at the University of Damascus.

Thin, with shoulder-length hair pulled back in a ponytail, Mishel described
being arrested at one of the first protests in Damascus. He said
plain-clothed members of the mukhabarat, Syria's secret police, dragged him
by his hair for more than a city block, then threw him into a bus, where
several men jumped him and beat him.

He said the regime had not been dispatching regular policemen to the
demonstrations, fearing perhaps that, like soldiers in Egypt's recent
revolution, many would side with the protesters. Instead, Assad had tasked
the secret police with putting down the rebellion.

In prison, Mishel suffered further beatings, though not as bad as those
inflicted on other detainees. He said the mukhabarat appeared to be
particularly rough with protesters from the Alawite sect, the same ethnic
group as Assad and many senior members of the regime: "Alawites who are
arrested are tortured horribly."

Once released, Mishel set about organizing other students into small groups,
with each cell member charged with a specific task. His own job is to film
the protests with a small video camera and quickly upload the footage to the
Internet. He now uses a proxy server to hide his IP address, he said.

On the phone or in email, Mishel said activists use references to mundane
matters like the weather or terms specific to a particular profession—say,
carpentry—as part of a code for coordinating protests. Still, he said, it is
evident that the secret police are getting better at tracking specific
activists. A month after his first imprisonment, they showed up at his home
and arrested him again.

The details Mishel provided matched the story of the other activist,
Diyadeen, who was interviewed separately. A 25-year-old law student in
Beirut, Diyadeen helped organize the first protests through the Internet and
traveled to Damascus to 

[osint] Distorting History

[Beowulf]

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/mladics-record-disto
rted.html

 


June 04, 2011


Distorting History


Why aren't the Bosnian Muslims held to the same standard as the Serb
Christians? Why is this fabricated narrative protected so fiercely? The left
is spitting bullets every time I post on Bosnia. They are so vested in
establishing a militant Islamic state in the heart of Europe. Why?

The American people were fed an endless supply of distortions and deceptions
in order to grease Clinton's war. It began with a lie
 . How long will these human rights activists and international law clowns
ignore the Serbian people and their stories? Refuting the Bosnian Lies.
 

The international community jumped to manufacture a "genocide" of a couple
of hundred people, when real genocides like the millions of Armenians,
Greeks and Assyrians by the Muslims are systematically ignored, demied.
Enough. When does the truth get a hearing? Scroll here
 .

This letter in the Edmunton Journal speaks truth to lie:

Mladic's record distorted

Edmonton Journal May 31, 2011

Re: "Mladic trial a time for Balkan truth," Opinion, May 28.

Thanks for the ambitious headline: "Mladic trial a time for Balkan truth."

We can only wish that truth were the goal of The Hague.

The Journal says that "Unquestionably, justice is the prime imperative
behind the arrest and coming trial of the Balkans' dreadful Ratko Mladic."

Using the preface "unquestionably" doesn't make it unquestionable.

The Journal says that "It is true that in the most passionate of conflicts,
nothing will shake some people from false or distorted versions of past
events."

Serbians and the many reputable critics who have witnessed the reporting and
trials that came out of these civil wars will firmly support that statement.
What is a false version of past events? Could it be that changing the
definition of genocide to fit the crime Mladic is accused of is a falsehood?

Thousands of Serbs around Srebrenica were slaughtered, tortured and beheaded
by Muslims based in the Srebrenica "safe haven." There was no question about
who did it: Naser Oric, the leader of the killers, photographed his victims
and bragged to Western journalists. This man got a light sentence -a slap on
the wrist.

Who would believe that Mladic will get a fair trial?

There was never a Serbian plan, much less a Mladic plan, for a greater
Serbia, but sloppy reporters, including The Journal, in using those words.

Anybody can pick up a package of past articles written about the conflicts
and spit it out again. The Journal coyly states that if Mladic is convicted
it will be for specific, verifiable crimes, but he has been convicted again
and again in the press until he is finally being sent to this kangaroo court
to tie things up.

The Serbian people are a dignified, justice-loving people whose story is
ignored.

N. Jakovac, Toronto, Ont.

What the media refuses to report on are the facts.

 
Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 6, 1996
Senior official admits to secret U.N. report on Sarajevo massacre

For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a
secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Moslems for the February 1994
massacre of Moslems at a Sarajevo market.

Yasushi Akashi, the Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the
former head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia, told the German Press Agency dpa
that the secret report is "no secret."

An international outcry over the massacre, in which 68 civilians perished at
Markale marketplace, led directly to a toughening of Western policy towards
the Serbs, who were widely blamed for the incident.

But there have been persistent rumours at the United Nations ever since that
a U.N. report clearly blamed the Moslems for firing on their own people in
order to create international sympathy and get the West to fight on their
side against the Serbs.

Until Thursday, U.N. officials strongly denied the report existed, even
after it was quoted in press reports.

Akashi told dpa that not only did the first report exist, but that some
journalists already had a copy. He said the details were in a 1995 story by
U.S. journalist David Binder, who quoted from the confidential report.

According to Binder, the report said U.N. peacekeepers were prevented by
Moslem police from entering the site in the aftermath of the explosion. No
doctors were allowed on the scene and the 197 victims were carried away to
hospital within 25 minutes.

After studying the crater left by the mortar shell and the distribution of
the shrapnel, the report concluded that the shell was fired from behind
Moslem lines. U.N. monitors reported no Serbian shelling that day from
points near the marketplace.

The official U.N. report that was subsequently released said

[osint] SWEDEN: Christians and Muslims headed for civil war?

[Beowulf]

 


SWEDEN: Christians and Muslims headed for civil war?


 

 

http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/sweden-christians-and-muslims
-headed-for-civil-war/

 


Sweden's famous 'welfare state' has attracted hordes of Muslim immigrants
from third world countries and native Swedes are getting sick of paying
their way and getting nothing but soaring rape and crime rates in return for
their famous Swedish hospitality.


MSNBC   -MALMO,
Sweden  - The bullet exploded through the mosque's window, sending glass
splinters hurtling into the office worker's neck. Frantically abandoning
their New Year's Eve chatter and coffee cups, worshippers rushed to the
bloodied victim's aid. The bullet had missed his head by inches; the
sniper's target would survive.

 

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59&h=252

Police allege the shooting at Malmo's Islamic center - Sweden's largest
mosque - was not random. Investigators say it was one of ten attempted
murders and at least one killing perpetrated by a gunman whose objective was
to "shoot at immigrants."

The apparent bid to kill a Muslim in a place of worship provoked much
soul-searching in Sweden, long regarded as one of Europe's most liberal and
welcoming societies.

But only nine months later, hundreds of thousands would cast ballots for the
far-right Sweden Democrats
 . The party
warned of "the dangers of Islamization" and ran a controversial campaign ad
  showing a gang of burqa-clad
women overtaking a senior citizen in a race for benefits.

The election result grabbed headlines across Europe. "Anti-immigration party
formed from skinhead movement seizes balance of power in Sweden" was the
take of Britain
 's Daily Mail. Germany
 's Der
Spiegel magazine noted that the showing had "shocked a world so used to
viewing Sweden as an open-

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314doored bastion of tolerance."

The Sweden Democrats' success was another sign that a mix of immigration,
economic woes and the threat of Islamist extremism has swirled into a
perfect storm of problems in Europe. Story: Islamists raise fears of violent
 'clash of
cultures' in Europe

Far-right parties in Austria, Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland have all made
significant gains in recent years.

Some have pushed for caps on immigration. Other measures - such as France's
ban on face veils and Switzerland's moratorium on minaret construction -
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And the reverberations of radical Islam have been felt widely with security
services thwarting many terrorist plots on the continent since 9/11. The
invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and controversy over Muhammad cartoons
have made some Muslims feel the West is at war with Islam. (We ARE)

"We can't deny that today Islam is regarded as the biggest threat to Europe
for many Europeans," said Professor Anne Sofie Roald of Malmo University's
Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations. "People are
perceiving it as a threat because they feel that the minority is growing."

 

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It's then that the symbols, such as minarets and veils, become important,
she said. "It always comes back to that people are afraid of Muslims taking
over their countries." An Iraqi-born bomber who blew himself up before he
could set off several devices along a busy Stockholm street before Christmas
damaged relations further.

 

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[osint] The Fall of Constantinople

[Beowulf]

Gordon Robertson
 
 The Fall of Constantinople 

 

 


http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/EZ30_Constantinople_HagiaSophia.aspx

 


THE 700 CLUB


The Fall of Constantinople


By Gordon Robertson 
The 700 Club 


May 31, 2011


 

  CBN.com - "There is only one thing I want: Give me
Constantinople." -Sultan Mehmet II

In AD 330, the Roman emperor Constantine did the unthinkable:  He moved the
capital of the empire from Rome to Asia Minor, now modern-day Turkey. There,
Constantine built a new Rome: the city of Constantinople. For more than a
thousand years, the city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the
center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

In Constantinople, Christianity permeated every aspect of life.  Even the
chariot races held in the Hippodrome began with the singing of hymns. The
center of worship was the Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom. The
Byzantine emperor Justinian commissioned the current building in AD 532,
making sure it was the largest in the world.

“On dedication day, Justinian made the remark, ‘O Solomon, I have outdone
thee.’ And in many ways, he certainly had,” says Dr. Paul Maier, the author
of The Constantine Codex, an historical novel that takes place in the Hagia
Sophia. “He provided a structure that has been a major landmark in the
history of the world ever since.”

The Byzantine Empire reached its height in the 11th century; then, like Rome
before it, the empire collapsed slowly from within. In 1204, Crusaders from
Western Europe invaded and left Constantinople in ruins. Then in 1347, the
Black Death killed a third of the population. By 1453, the city was in debt
and disrepair, and the Byzantines, overwhelmed by their own problems,
overlooked the growing threat rising in the East.

For more than a century, the Ottoman Turks had been gaining power and taking
land from the Byzantines. In 1451, a new sultan took the Ottoman throne.
Mehmet II was only 19 years old, a devout Muslim determined to prove
himself.  His goal was to conquer the strategic bridge between Europe and
Asia and make Constantinople his new capital.

“He was a follower of sharia law, very definitely,” says Maier. “It was
ultimately a religious drive that urged him on to conquer the city.”

In the spring of 1453, Mehmet wrote to his rival, the Byzantine emperor,
Constantine XI Palaiologos, and offered him a chance to surrender the city.
Constantine refused. In his letter to the sultan, he wrote, "As it is clear
that you desire war more than peace, I turn now and look alone to God... and
closing the gates of my capital, I will defend my people to the last drop of
blood. " 

On April 6, the Ottomans began to bombard the city walls. The Byzantine army
was outnumbered ten to one, and with each passing day, panic grew inside the
city. The siege of Constantinople had begun.

“Of course when the siege takes place, when the aqueduct water is cut off
and you can’t buy food anymore, then of course a terrible malaise hits the
city,” says Maier.

In spite of the constant attacks, the Byzantines still believed they would
win, until they saw a series of bad omens. An old Byzantine prophecy said
that as long as the moon was in the sky, the city would not fall. But on the
night of May 22, a lunar eclipse darkened the moon over Constantinople.

The next day brought a furious storm with thunder and lightning, and that
night, a strange, ghostly light surrounded the dome of the Hagia Sophia.
Some witnesses said it was a sign of the Holy Spirit departing from the
cathedral.

As the Turks closed in on the city, hundreds of refugees fled to the church
for safety.

On May 28, priests began the last Christian service that would ever be held
there.
Just before midnight, Emperor Constantine arrived at the Hagia Sophia. He
said his final prayer and returned to his post.

While the emperor prayed, the sultan ordered the final attack. By sunrise,
the city's famous double walls had been breached. Advisors urged the emperor
to escape, but Constantine refused, saying, "I cannot leave the great
churches in such a plight.

What would the world say about me? I am resolved to die here with you."

Constantine led his men in a final charge against the Turks, and he was
never seen alive again. A few days later, a headless corpse was found,
wearing boots embroidered with the double eagle, the emblem of the house of
Palaiologos, the Byzantine royal family. By the end of the day, the Ottomans
had taken Constantinople. As a reward, Mehmet gave his soldiers the run of
the city.

“Mehmet, as a matter of fact, chivalrously limited the looting of his men to
three days,” says Maier. “So they really had to work hard in terms of their
pillage. And they did. “

The soldiers star

[osint] New Al Qaeda Video: American Muslims Should Buy Guns, Start Shooting People

[Beowulf]

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/new-al-qaeda-video-a
merican-muslims-should-buy-guns-start-shooting-people.html

 


June 04, 2011


New Al Qaeda Video: American Muslims Should Buy Guns, Start Shooting People


It's coming damn close to this in Europe. Do not believe for one second that
America is that far behind. Don't you dare criticize the religious ideology
that inspires jihad, you racistislamophobicantimuslimbigot.

And how is the West responding? By demonizing and destroying those fighting
in defense of freedom, like myself, Spencer, Sultan, etc., while cozying up
to Muslim Brotherhood proxies (like CAIR, ICNA, ISNA) whose stated goal is
"eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging
its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers, so that
it is eliminated, and God's religion is made victorious over all other
religions."

New Al Qaeda Video: American Muslims Should Buy Guns, Start Shooting People
  ABC
news

PHOTO: American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living
in America to carry out deadly one-man terrorist acts

American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in
America to carry out deadly one-man terrorist acts. (ABC News)

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By MATTHEW COLE

June 3, 2011

In a new video message released on the internet Friday, American-born al
Qaeda
  spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out
deadly one-man terrorist acts using fully automatic weapons purchased at gun
shows, and to target major institutions and public figures.

"What are you waiting for?" asks Gadahn in English, and then adds that
jihadis shouldn't worry about getting caught, since so many have been
released. "Over these past few years, I've seen the release of many, many
Mujahideen whom I had never even dreamed would regain their freedom."

The two-part, two hour video appeared on jihadi websites Friday with images
of jihadi leaders as well as snapshots of alleged underwear bomber
  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and accused Fort Hood
shooter Major Nidal Hasan. Both Hasan and Abdulmutallab are charged with
carrying out attacks inside the U.S.

Called "Do Not Rely on Others, Take the Task Upon Yourself" and produced by
al Qaeda's media arm, as Sahab, the tape mixes Gadahn's new message with
clips from old videos of Osama bin Laden
 , Ayman al-Zawahiri and other al Qaeda leaders praising one-man
attacks. They call on jihadis in the West to carry out lone wolf operations.

Gadahn sounds the same theme in his message, a series of soundbites
interspersed throughout the video and accompanied by images of U.S.
airliners, bombmaking and the logos of U.S. companies. "Muslims in the West
have to remember that they are perfectly placed to play an important and
decisive part in the Jihad against the Zionists and crusaders, and to do
major damage to the enemies of Islam, waging war on their religion, sacred
places, and things, and brethren," says Gadahn. "This is a golden
opportunity and a blessing."

He urges Muslims to pursue attacks with whatever is available. "Let's take
America as an example. America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable
firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and
come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check,
and most likely without having to show an identification card. So what are
you waiting for?" 

Gadahn suggests targeting major institutions -- after a clip showing the
logos of such firms as Exxon, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America -- and
"influential public figures." "Getting to these criminals isn't as hard as
you might think," says Gadahn. "I mean we've seen how a woman knocked the
Pope to the floor during Christmas mass, and how Italian leader Berlusconi's
face was smashed during a public appearance. So it's just a matter of
entrusting the matter to Allah and choosing the right place, the right time,
and the right method."

He claims that many Western born or raised jihadis, the "brothers who came
from abroad" are now thinking about returning to their "Crusader" countries
to "discharge their duty of jihad." He also says not to worry about
imprisonment, since so many have been jihadis have been set free. "If it's
Allah's will that you be captured, then it's not the end the world, and it
doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to spend the rest of your li

[osint] Shot of the Day

[Beowulf]

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/shot-of-the-day.html

 

June 04, 2011

Shot of the Day

 
 EgyptFreedomjpeg
I received this clipping from a reader in Egypt, attached with this note:

HI Pamela,
 
Have been reading your blog for a very long time, and really appreciate your
effort.  Always a good read, stuff I sometimes would rather forget, but
really need to see.
 
The attached was from the Egyptian Gazzette, a truly worthless piece of
crap, but a look at Egyptian thinking and stupidity. I live in Egypt,
although probably not for long.
 
The situation here is changed from last year in some ways, but in reality,
only security is changed.  Security is gone, and everyone is scared.  The
perfect opportunity for the brotherhood to step in and take control.  There
really is no other option,  anarchy or the brotherhood.  The fools that
started the revolution,  have not a clue.
 
If you look at the past two Fridays, you can see it is over.  The fools
garnered maybe 10,000, the brotherhood easily 200,000 in the Tahir square.
 
The anti Jewish/Israel situation has not really changed. Israelis from my
experience know more than I do about Egypt, while Egyptians are totally in
the dark, and are afraid of Israel.  It is a fear of the unknown as much as
anything.  You would laugh at the kind of conspiricy theories about Jews
here. My favorite was the trained sharks that attacked Sharm last year, I
just could not help but laugh whenever people brought it up.  We are dealing
with the truly ignorant.
 
Christians in Egypt will have what happened to Jews in the 50/60's happen to
them. A slow but relentless push out.
 
I totally despise the president fool [Obama], but more I despise a political
system that could result in such a poor result.

 



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[osint] Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes

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June 04, 2011

Got five minutes, I'll give you four thousand years:

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[osint] Once Again, FBI's 'Muslim Outreach' Welcomes Terrorist

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Once Again, FBI's 'Muslim Outreach' Welcomes Terror-Tied Man

Posted By Patrick Poole On June 4, 2011 

Court documents filed last month by the Department of Justice in a federal
civil rights lawsuit shows that Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Robert Grant
of the FBI Chicago field office had warned the Illinois State Police: newly
appointed Muslim chaplain Kifah Mustapha would never pass an FBI background
check.

Mustapha's long association with terrorist group Hamas occurred at virtually
the same time that Mustapha was admitted into the FBI Citizens' Academy
sponsored by SAC Grant's Chicago office. The Academy program required a
background check and included a guided tour of the top-secret National
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and the FBI Academy at Quantico.

The statements made by SAC Grant were noted in a motion for a protective
order   [1]
filed with the court and noted in a report
  [2] published by the Investigative Project. The DOJ's motion states:

In each conversation, SAC Grant stated that Mustapha would not pass an FBI
background check if he applied for an FBI chaplain position and then
proceeded to explain the bases for his opinion.

The DOJ motion is in response to the lawsuit filed by Mustapha after his
state police appointment as Muslim chaplain was revoked. Mustapha had
initially been accepted as state police chaplain, but after a news story
aired   [3]
reporting Mustapha's terrorist connections and terror support, the state
police conducted another background check. During this check was apparently
when the conversations with SAC Grant took place, which resulted in the
state police revoking Mustapha
 's appointment [4]. Mustapha then sued
  [5], claiming ethnic and religious
discrimination, with his case being supported by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has also been identified by the FBI
  [6] as a terrorist front for Hamas.

The FBI, which is not a party to the lawsuit, is seeking to protect the
information they shared with the state police on Mustapha, claiming it would
reveal sources and collection methods.

There's not much mystery as to why SAC Grant would tell the Illinois State
Police that Kifah Mustapha couldn't pass an FBI background check. Mustapha
is a known Hamas operative, including his prior employment with the Holy
Land Foundation, which was listed
  [7]
as a specially designated terrorist group by the U.S. government in December
2001, and whose executives were convicted
  [8] of terrorism
support for Hamas in 2008 and sentenced
  [9] to lengthy
prison terms. Mustapha was personally named by federal prosecutors as an
unindicted co-conspirator (#31) in the case, and employment records
submitted during the trial showed that he received more than $154,000 for
his work with the Holy Land Foundation between 1996 and 2000.

Also during the trial, FBI Special Agent Lara Burns testified that Mustapha
sang in a band sponsored by the Holy Land Foundation that regularly featured
songs dedicated to killing Jews and glorifying Hamas.

In a deposition he gave in a civil trial concerned with the murder of a
Chicago teenager killed by Hamas while waiting for a bus in Israel, Mustapha
admitted that he was the registered agent for the Holy Land Foundation in
Illinois, and also to his involvement with other Hamas front groups,
including the Islamic Association for Palestine. He was later hired as an
imam by the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, which the Chicago Tribune noted
in 2004 has long been a hotbed of Hamas support.

What makes the statements by SAC Grant so puzzling is that at virtually the
same time that he was telling the state police that Mustapha couldn't pass
an FBI background check, Mustapha apparently passed an FBI background check
when he was admitted to the FBI Citizens' Academy under the sponsorship of
Grant's office.

The Citizens  ' Academy
webpage [10] on the FBI's own website states:

Because of the classified investigative techniques discussed, nominees must
also undergo a background check and get an interim security clearance.

In at least some of the FBI programs   [11], each
nominee must meet the approval of the special agent in charge. This glaring
contradiction has been noted by Mustapha's atto

[osint] 270 Million Bodies in 1400 Years

[Beowulf]

Interesting video





Islam: 270 Million Bodies in 1400 Years - What Every Kafir Must Know!



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[osint] Linked to Every Terrorist Plot

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He was linked to every terrorist plot

Nirupama Subramanian

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2077216.ece?css=print

 

Ilyas Kashmiri, reported killed in a drone attack on Friday in South
Waziristan, has been linked to virtually every high-profile terrorist
operation in Pakistan from the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to the
attempted assassination of General Pervez Musharraf, as well as the attack
on the Mehran Base in Karachi last month.

The one-eyed jihadist has been named by U.S. investigators as the key
conspirator in the plot to bomb the offices of the Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten, based on the testimony of the Pakistani-American David
Headley, who was arrested in Chicago for his role in the plot, and is now
the main prosecution witness in the 26/11 trial in the U.S.

Only last week, Headley revealed that Kashmiri had planned to kill the head
of aircraft maker Lockheed Martin to avenge drone attacks in Pakistan's
tribal areas. During her recent visit to Pakistan, U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton is reported to have demanded that Pakistan track him down
without delay. If his elimination was the result of intelligence sharing by
Pakistan, it may mark a new chapter in the ties between the two countries
after the rupture over Osama bin Laden's killing in a secret U.S. operation.


>From Afghanistan to Kashmir to South Waziristan, Ilyas Kashmiri was the
personification of the connections between the various militant groups based
in Pakistan, and their linkages to al-Qaeda.

>From his bases in North Waziristan and South Waziristan, he was believed to
be churning out trained jihadists in the cause of al-Qaeda, prompting the
U.S. to announce a $5 million bounty for him. He had been targeted in
several drone attacks earlier, and was once even believed to have been
killed, wrongly as it turned out.

Kashmiri reportedly masterminded the deadly suicide attack on a CIA base in
the Khost province of Afghanistan in December 2009. He also claimed to have
been behind the German Bakery bombing in February 2010 in Pune. His name has
also been linked with the 26/11 attacks.

The only ever journalist to have ever interviewed Kashmiri - as recently as
October 2009 - and who could have confirmed if he has indeed been killed,
was Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistani journalist who was himself found dead
in mysterious circumstances following his disappearance last Sunday.

>From what has been reported in the Pakistani press about Kashmiri, he headed
the 313 brigade, an operational arm of the al-Qaeda in Pakistan that he had
raised when he was with the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen-Islami, a Pakistan-based
group that first fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and later set its sights
on Kashmir.

He was once arrested by the Indian Army in Kashmir, but managed to escape
and return to Pakistan. According to a report by the well-known Pakistani
journalist Hamid Mir, he was felicitated by none other than General Pervez
Musharraf with a cash award for bringing back the head of an Indian soldier
he had killed.

But he is said to have fallen out with the Pakistani military establishment
soon thereafter, and was arrested for the December 2003 assassination
attempt on President Musharraf.

Kashmiri, who was released a year later, cooled his heels for the next three
years. According to Mr. Mir, he was back in action after the 2007 Pakistan
military operation against militants holed up in Islamabad's Lal Masjid,
which "totally changed" him.

He moved to North Waziristan where he attached himself to al-Qaeda and
reorganised the 313 Brigade, this time for a war against Pakistan.

A UN enquiry into Benazir Bhutto's killing in December 2007 named Kashmiri
as one of the possible masterminds of that assassination.

Soon after the 26/11 attacks, Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistani journalist found
dead days ago, linked Kashmiri and the al-Qaeda to the attack. He reported
that they had turned a relatively less ambitious ISI-planned attack into the
spectacular terrorist show in Mumbai with the aim of causing a war between
India and Pakistan in order to divert attention from the Afghan border.

This theory, debunked in India as seeking to exonerate the ISI for the
Mumbai attacks, now appears in a book by him, "Inside Al Qaeda and the
Taliban: Beyond bin Laden and 9/11," published in the United Kingdom three
weeks ago.

The only interview he gave was to Shahzad in October 2009, a month after he
was wrongly reported killed in a drone attack in the North Waziristan area.

In the interview, Kashmiri explained his move from the militancy in Kashmir
to al-Qaeda thus: "The defeat of American global hegemony is a must if I
want the liberation of my homeland Kashmir, and therefore it provided the
reasoning for my presence in this war theatre."

He also warned that the world should expect more "Mumbai-like" attacks.
"That was nothing compared to what has already been planned for the future."
He said he had chosen to join al-Qaeda because they we

[osint] New al-Qaeda Chief Pure Terrorist Commander

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New Al Qaida chief called 'pure terrorist commander'; targets Saudis 

WASHINGTON - Al Qaida's new chief was deemed brutal and intent on toppling
the royal family in Saudi Arabia. 

Western intelligence sources said Saif Al Adel, named the new commander of
Al Qaida, engaged in brutality as part of a campaign to promote himself and
the Islamic insurgency network. They said Al Adel would also team with Al
Qaida's No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri, in a new drive against Saudi Arabia. 


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Saif Al Adel.



  _  

"One of their [Al Adel and Zawahiri] first targets would be the Saudis," a
Western intelligence analyst said. 

The sources said Al Adel, named Osama Bin Laden's successor in May, angered
Al Qaida's founder with the former's brutal methods. 

They cited the abduction and beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl
in Pakistan in 2002 by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, known as KSM. 

"One of the high value detainees told interrogators that Osama Bin Laden was
angry that KSM had slaughtered Pearl so publicly and brutally, arguing that
the murder brought unnecessary attention on the network," a report on
Pearl's investigation, which quoted a former U.S. military prosecutor, said
in January. 

The sources said Al Adel encouraged Mohammad to abduct Pearl during his
visit to Pakistan. Pearl had been kidnapped by Islamic militants in
Pakistan, and Al Adel was believed this could represent a coup for Al Qaida.
In 2003, Mohammed was captured and taken for interrogation to the U.S. Navy
prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

"KSM told the FBI that he was pulled into the kidnapping by a high-level
leader in Al Qaida circles, an Egyptian named Saif Al Adel, who told him to
make the kidnapping an Al Qaida operation," the report by the Pearl Project
at Georgetown University said. 

"He [Al Adel] thought this was an opportunity," the report quoted Mohammad
as telling FBI agents as saying. "We can take advantage of it. He said he
wanted to make sure it's an Al Qaida thing." 

In 2002, Pakistan tried and convicted four Islamist defendants for the
killing of Pearl. All of them have appealed their sentences, one of which
was capital punishment. The sources also said Al Adel would work closely
with Zawahiri, both Egyptian nationals, in operations against Saudi Arabia.
They said Bin Laden had restricted Al Qaida attacks against his native Saudi
homeland after 2007. 

"Unlike Bin Laden, Al Adel is a pure terrorist commander and strategist who
truly believes that the key to destroying the United States is to topple the
Saudi royal family," the intelligence analyst said. "Zawahiri believes the
same thing, but until now Bin Laden stopped him." 

The sources said Al Adel, known as a critic of Bin Laden, has retained close
links to Iran. They said Al Adel used Iran as a haven since Al Qaida's air
suicide strikes on New York and Washington in which more than 3,000 people
were killed in 2001. 

"We don't know what the Iranians are telling Al Adel, but it is clear that
Teheran wants to use Al Qaida in any anti-Saudi agenda," the analyst said. 

Al Adel was also said to have been one of the most experienced Al Qaida
commanders. The sources said he helped plan the 1998 bombings of the U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, regarded as one of the most complex and
successful attacks on U.S. interests abroad. 

"He is very meticulous and takes great pride in his operations," another
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[osint] Iran Tries to Smuggle US Military Helicopters via Spain

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Madrid blocks try by Iran for nine U.S. military helicopters 

LONDON - Iran has been stopped in efforts to acquire U.S.-origin military
helicopters. 

The government in Madrid reported blocking an Iranian attempt to purchase
nine U.S. military helicopters through Spanish companies. Officials said
Iran ordered the Bell-212 transport helicopter for Teheran's military and
security forces. 

"They tried to protect the export sale, which could have resulted in revenue
of about 100 million euro, under the cover of legal aviation repairs,"
Spanish police said. 

In a statement on May 26, Spanish police said they found the helicopters
ordered by Iran in warehouses in Barcelona and Madrid. Police said the
helicopters as well as spares were seized. 

This marked the latest attempt by Iran to acquire U.S. aircraft. Earlier
this year, Washington reported the arrest of several American businessmen
for agreeing to sell surplus aircraft, engines and spares to the Teheran
regime. 

Police said five Spanish executives and three Iranians were arrested in
connection with the helicopter deal. They said Iranian representatives had
arrived in Spain to pay for the aircraft and arrange for shipment to
Teheran. 

The Bell-212 has been part of the Iranian Air Force fleet since 1971. 

The helicopter, designed to transport soldiers and equipment, could reach a
speed of 225 kilometers per hour and a range of nearly 600 kilometers. 

The Spanish defendants were said to have acquired the helicopters from
Israel. Officials said Israel sold the surplus helicopters for $20 million
to a Spaniard identified as Pedro Matorna. The United States approved the
sale after Matorna said the Bell-212 would be used to fight forest fires. 

"There was a group of Spanish citizens who bought material, in this case
helicopters, in Israel and then tried to sell them to other nations to which
you can't export arms, like Iran," Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez
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[osint] Belarus, China, Venezuela Aided Iran Strategic Programs

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U.S. intel: Belarus, China, Venezuela aided Iran strategic programs 

WASHINGTON - Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has identified
renewed support for Iran's missile and nuclear programs. They said the
support came from such allies as Belarus, China, North Korea and Syria. 

"Iran has so far not demonstrated a willingness to meet its international
obligations or negotiate seriously on its nuclear program, and so we and our
international partners have had no choice but to step up pressures in the
hope that Iran will reconsider what's in its own best interest," a senior
administration official said. 


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The Obama administration hit several foreign companies with sanctions for
doing business with Iran that helps fund its missile and nuclear program.


  _  

On May 23, the White House announced sanctions on two Belarus entities,
three Chinese entities, five Iranian entities, two Syrian entities and a
company from Venezuela. Officials said many of the companies or government
agencies were determined to have helped Iran's ballistic missile program.
This marked the first time the United States imposed sanctions under the
Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, a measure meant to last
two years. 

The two entities from Belarus were identified as Belarusian Optical
Mechanical Association and BelTechExport while the sanctions on China were
Dalian Sunny Industries, Dalian Zhongbang Chemical Industries Co., Xian
Junyun Electronic and a Chinese national Karl Lee. Syria was represented by
the state-owned Industrial Establishment of Defense and Scientific Studies
and Research Center, known as SSRC. 

"There was credible information indicating that they had transferred to or
acquired from Iran, North Korea, or Syria equipment and technology listed on
multilateral export control lists Australia Group, Chemical Weapons
Convention, Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group,
Wassenaar Arrangement or otherwise having the potential to make a material
contribution to WMD or cruise or ballistic missile systems," the White House
said on May 24. 

The latest sanctions also included North Korea's Tangun Trading, the
state-owned Venezuela Military Industries Co. and Iran's Milad Jafari,
Defense Industries Organization, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines,
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, SAD Import-Export Company, and
Shahid Bakeri Industries Group. Most of these entities have already come
under American sanctions and were not believed to have assets in the United
States. 

"We believe there's a growing consensus on the need to sharpen the choice
for Iran and bring it to the conclusion that it should meet its
international obligations and address international concerns about its
nuclear program," the official said. 

Officials acknowledged that the latest sanctions do not penalize the
governments that enable missile trade with Iran. In other sanctions, the
administration also said U.S. subsidiaries of the targeted companies would
not be harmed. 

"It is true that for most of these entities, there are very few, if any,
commercial dealings with the United States," the senior official said. "And
so the immediate practical impact of the sanctions will be minimal, but it
would impact possible future cooperation by these entities with the United
States." 

 



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[osint] US Intelligence IDs IRGC Officer Who Trained Syrians for Crackdown

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U.S. intelligence IDs IRGC officer who trained Syrians for crackdown 


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Officials said Chizari and Suleimani were the key to the resilience of the
Assad regime in the face of nationwide protests. 

  _  

.  Role: Iran Quds Force No. 3 commander 

.  Notoriety: Arrested by U.S. troops in Baghdad in 2006 

WASHINGTON - The United States has identified a leading Iranian officer as
helping President Bashar Assad quell the revolt in Syria. 

The U.S. intelligence community has deemed Mohsen Chizari a leading Iranian
facilitator of the Assad regime. Officials said Chizari was responsible for
training at Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, whose officers were
helping quell the anti-Assad revolt in Syria. 

"He is in charge of training the Syrians as well as sending Iranian advisers
to help the security forces," an official said. 

On May 18, the Treasury Department identified Chizari and Qassem Suleimani
as Iranian facilitators of the Assad crackdown. Suleimani, commander of
IRGC's Quds Force, was designated the "conduit for Iranian material support
to the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate." 

Chizari was identified as commander of training at the Quds Force. The Quds
Force was responsible for IRGC foreign operations, including training and
equipment of such Iranian proxies as Hamas, Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad, all
of which have been based in Damascus. 


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Syrian anti-government protesters in Nawa near the southern town of Daraa,
the epicentre of protests that have shaken President Bashar al-Assad's once
uncontested rule.
AFP/Getty Images/AFP/Getty Images 

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"Mohsen Chizari, an Iranian military officer who is the No. 3 leader in the
Quds Force in charge of training," Treasury said. 

Officials said Chizari and Suleimani were the key to the resilience of the
Assad regime in the face of nationwide protests. They said the two IRGC
commanders were monitoring the revolt and advising the Assad leadership. 

IRGC was said to be providing several levels of assistance over the last 10
weeks. Officials said Chizari and Suleimani provided training and equipment
that allowed Syrian intelligence to track opposition organizers through the
Internet. 

For Chizari, this marked his second major mission abroad in less than five
years. In 2006, Chizari was operating in Iran's neighbor, Iraq, where he was
arrested by the U.S. military. Within days, the IRGC officer was released. 

On April 29, the White House imposed sanctions on IRGC for alleged help to
the Assad regime in trying to quell the revolt. But the White House did not
elaborate except to say that IRGC's Quds Force was working with Syrian
General Intelligence. 

"Iran is providing material support to the Syrian government related to
cracking down on unrest in Syria," the White House said. "The conduit for
this Iranian material support to the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate
is the IRGC-QF." 

Officials confirmed reports by the opposition that Hizbullah was also
helping support the Syrian Army and security forces to battle the
protesters. They said Hizbullah provided manpower as well as equipment to
the Assad regime. 

"The Iranians are helping Assad but they are also hedging their bets and are
in contact with the opposition as well," an official said. "IRGC is in
contact with the Muslim Brotherhood." 

 



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[osint] Cyberthreats Increasing: Critical US Infrastructure Being Hit Often

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Cyberthreats increasing: Critical U.S.infrastructure being hit often 

Senior Obama administration security officials said last week that the
threat posed by cyber attacks on U.S. computer networks is growing as
systems have numerous security vulnerabilities. 

"The United States confronts a dangerous combination of known and unknown
vulnerabilities, strong and rapidly expanding adversary capabilities, and
limited comprehensive threat and vulnerability awareness," said three senior
officials in prepared testimony to the House Judiciary committee. "Within
this dynamic environment, we are confronted with threats that are more
targeted, more sophisticated, and more serious." 


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"Governments have become as reliant on information technology as
corporations have."
   Getty 

  _  

The three officials were James A. Baker, associate deputy attorney general,
Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for cyber security at the Homeland
Security Department and Ari Schwartz, senior adviser at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology. 

Critical U.S. infrastructure including electrical grids, financial
institutions and transportation networks were hit with repeated cyber
intrusions and cyber crime has increased dramatically over the past decade,
they said at a hearing of two subcommittee that deal with crime and
information security May 25. 

"Sensitive information is routinely stolen from both government and private
sector networks, undermining confidence in our information systems, the
information collection and sharing process, and the information these
systems contain," the officials said. 

While the lost of intellectual capital is "deeply concerning," the three
officials said "we increasingly face threats that are of even greater
concern." 

"Our nation is at risk. The cybersecurity vulnerabilities in our government
and critical infrastructure are a risk to national security, public safety,
and economic prosperity," Messrs. Baker, Schaffer and Schwartz stated. 

In later testimony, Robert W. Holleyman, president of the Business Software
Alliance, said current cybersecurity threats are gave and fall into four
categories: cybercrime, espionage targeting corporations, espionage against
governments and cyber warfare. 

"Cyber attacks against the computers, servers and networks on which
companies depend have reached unprecedented levels of sophistication, with
the aim of committing extortion or stealing intellectual property and other
trade secrets for the benefit of competitors," Holleyman said. 

"Governments have become as reliant on information technology as
corporations have; as a result, advanced persistent threats that penetrate
government computers, servers and networks can produce significant
intelligence." 

On cyberwarfare, Hollyman said the dependence of the nation on networks "can
be exploited by another to electronically disable its critical
infrastructure, essential governmental services and military capabilities." 

Among the attack trends outlined by Hollyman are: 

.  Targeted attacks: Attackers increasingly identify specific targets and
develop sophisticated plans for compromising their computers. They have
learned that the easiest vulnerability to exploit is our trust of friends
and colleagues. 

.  Social networking: Linked to the first trend is the exploitation of
online social networks which provide rich research for tailoring an attack
allowing hackers to learn our interests, gain our trust, and convincingly
masquerade as friends. 

.  Stealth: Once inside an organization, a targeted attack attempts to avoid
detection until its objective is met. Exploiting zero?day vulnerabilities
(previously unknown and unpatched security holes) and using rootkits
(software that provides privileged access) are two effective ways of evading
detection. 

.  Attack kits that are packaged and traded as easy-to-use attack kits in a
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[osint] Pentagon Probe of WikiLeaks Found Security Breaches going Undetected

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Pentagon probe of WikiLeaks found security breaches going undetected 

The disclosure of thousands of internal government documents to the
anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks highlighted the failures within the Pentagon
to protect the loss and compromise of information as the result of insiders,
according to a member of Congress. 

Rep. John Tierney, D-Ma, and ranking member of the national security,
homeland defense and foreign operations subcommittee of the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee, disclosed during a hearing May 25 that the
Pentagon reviewed its computer security in the WikiLeaks failure. 

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered two studies of computer security at
the Pentagon after WikiLeaks began releasing documents in June 2010. 

"The studies found that the department's policies for dealing with an
internal security threat were inadequate, and that the department had
limited capability to detect and monitor anomalous behavior on its
classified computer networks," Tierney said. 

Other threats to computer networks included the Chinese computer attack on
Google and at least 80 other U.S. companies. 

Tierney said last month in Massachusetts a virus called W32.qqakbot was
discovered on computers at the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce
Development. 

"As a result, the Labor Department said as many as 210,000 unemployed
workers may have had data compromised, including their names, Social
Security numbers, employer identification numbers, addresses and email
addresses," he said. 

"Cyber attacks on our federal IT systems are on the rise," Tierney said,
noting multiple threats from foreign nations engaged in espionage and
information warfare, criminals, hackers, disgruntled employees and
contractors. 

 



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[osint] IAEA Reveals New Data Pointing to Iran Nuke Development

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IAEA report reveals new data pointing to Iran nuke development 

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed new information about
Iran's covert nuclear weapons programs that includes work on nuclear missile
warheads and development of triggering mechanisms and high-explosive
detonations used in nuclear bombs. 

A confidential IAEA report made public in mid-May provided the first details
of the watchdog agency s unanswered questions about past nuclear arms work
that many experts say is still underway, despite a controversial 2007 U.S.
intelligence estimate that said Iran halted work on nuclear arms in 2003. 

According to the report, the covert Iranian arms work falls into seven
areas: 

.  Compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons. 

.  Uranium conversion and metal work aimed at producing uranium metal and
making it into components for a nuclear bomb. 

.  Developing, manufacturing and testing explosive components used to
initiate high explosives like those used in triggering a spherical-shaped
nuclear warhead pit. 

.  Exploding bridgewire (EBW) detonator work related to "applications
necessitating high simultaneity" like those used to trigger a nuclear weapon
blast. 

.  Multipoint explosive initiation and hemispherical detonation studies that
used detonators to set off hemispherical high explosive charges, and
included "work which may have benefited from the assistance of foreign
expertise" outside Iran. 

.  High voltage firing equipment used for explosives tests over long
distances and possibly underground nuclear tests to determine if high
voltage triggering of nuclear detonators can be carried out over long
distances. 

.  Missile re-entry vehicle "redesign activities" for a new warhead that is
"assessed as being nuclear in nature." The design work included modeling on
the removal of a conventional, high explosive warhead from the Shihab-3
missile and its replacement with a "spherical nuclear payload." 

The report said the IAEA obtained new information on the military aspects of
Iran's illegal nuclear program earlier this year. And the report also
revealed for the first time that Iran is suspected of receiving foreign
support from unspecified places. 

The report says past information from member states and its own inquiries
showed "the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed
nuclear related activities involving military related organizations,
including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a
missile." 

"Since the last report of the Director General on 25 February 2011, the
agency has received further information related to such possible undisclosed
nuclear related activities, which is currently being assessed by the
agency," says the internal IAEA report dated May 24. "As previously reported
by the Director General, there are indications that certain of these
activities may have continued beyond 2004." 

That statement helps explain why the CIA in February revised its annual
report to Congress on arms proliferation to leave out language contained in
earlier reports echoing a controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate
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[osint] UK TOWER HAMLETS: Radical Muslim could soon gain control of $1.6 billion budget

[Beowulf]

Of course there is no such thing as a “Radical” (vs “moderate”) Muslim…
only Muslims.  All evil.

B


 



 UK TOWER HAMLETS:
Radical Muslim could soon gain control of $1.6 billion budget


  barenakedislam
| June 4, 2011 at 1:07 PM | Categories:
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A man with close links to Islamic fundamentalism and the backing of
prominent racists could this week be elected as the executive mayor of a
council, with almost total control over its $1.6 billion budget. The EDL
patriots will be there to protest. UK TELEGRAPH - Lutfur Rahman was sacked
by the Labour Party last month as [...]

UK TELEGRAPH
  - Lutfur Rahman was
sacked by the Labour Party last month as its candidate for mayor of Tower
Hamlets amid deep concerns about his links with a Muslim supremacist group,
the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), and a number of powerful local
businessmen.



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Mr Rahman also signed up entire families of “sham” paper Labour members -
some of whom do not even support the party - to win nomination as Labour’s
candidate. Mr Rahman is now running as an independent and his supporters say
he is “hopeful” of victory. ”Things look very good,” said one of his
major business backers, Shiraj Haque, a millionaire restaurateur.

Labour sources said the contest between Mr Rahman and their new candidate,
Helal Abbas, was “extremely close” and would depend on turnout in
Thursday’s election.

Unlike a conventional leader, a directly-elected mayor has almost complete
power over a council’s finances and cannot be controlled, checked or sacked
by councillors.Tower Hamlets moved from a conventional leader system to a
mayoralty this year as a result of a campaign spearheaded by the IFE.



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In secret filming earlier this year, Abu Talha, an IFE activist, told an
undercover reporter for The Sunday Telegraph and Channel 4′sDispatches:
“The mayor is going to have a lot more control. That’s why we need to get
someone, one of our brothers, in there. Which we will do.”

According to one of its own leaflets, the IFE - based at the hardline East
London Mosque in Tower Hamlets - wants to change the “very infrastructure
of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed
… from ignorance to Islam.”



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Mr Rahman, a former council leader, was removed from that post by his fellow
councillors in May after The Sunday Telegraph and Dispatchesexposed how he
had achieved the position with the help of the IFE. Six serving and former
Labour councillors told us they had been threatened by a senior IFE official
that the group would mobilise its supporters against them if they did not
choose Mr Rahman as their leader.



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During Mr Rahman’s two years as council leader, Tower Hamlets channelled
millions of pounds of public money to front organisations run by the IFE.
The borough’s public libraries stocked large quantities of extremist
literature, including taped sermons by the spiritual leader of the 9/11
hijackers, Anwar al-Awlaki. An anti-gay preacher was hosted in the council
chamber.



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Mr Rahman said that if elected he would “work to bring together our diverse
communities”. However, one of his leading supporters, Wais Islam, a former
Tower Hamlets councillor, recently posted anti-Semitic insults about a local
journalist on his Fa

[osint] Serbian mercenaries in Libya?

[Beowulf]

  

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/
2011/06/03/feature-03

Serbian mercenaries in Libya?

03/06/2011

To fight his own people, Gaddafi has reportedly enlisted foreign soldiers -
and mercenaries from European countries.

(Various sources -- 23/02/11 - 26/05/11)

photo

Gaddafi's use of foreign fighters shows that he lacks support from Libyans,
analysts say. [Reuters]

Since the outbreak of the popular uprising against his more than
40-year-long rule began in mid-February, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has
resorted to hiring foreign fighters, mostly from Africa, to quell the
challenge to his rule.

According to Michel Koutouzis, a leading criminologist whose
French-registered consulting company does research for EU and UN
institutions, as many as 500 European mercenaries have also joined the
colonel's ranks.

Although the bulk of them come from Belarus, Serbia and Ukraine, others are
citizens of EU member states, the Greek analyst said. According to media
reports and bloggers, he is paying mercenaries up to $2,500 per day.

"In Libyan society, there is a taboo against killing people from your own
tribal group," a report by Brussels-based EUobserver on April 26th quoted
Koutouzis as explaining. "This is one reason why Gaddafi needs foreign
fighters."

Other experts have cited the Libyan leader's lack of trust in his own
people.

It is not surprising that Gaddafi is hiring fighters from the former
Yugoslavia, given their experience in warfare, Fatima Mahmud, a Libyan
journalist and member of the Transitional National Council in Benghazi told
Croatian daily Vecernji List in early April.

Aside from the Serbian mercenaries, who are believed to be involved mainly
in the aerial assaults against Libyan rebels, nationals of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (BiH) and Croatia are believed to be fighting on the ground
alongside the African recruits, she said.

She linked the involvement of Serbian fighters in Libya to the warm ties
between Tripoli and Belgrade during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

"After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Gaddafi sided with Slobodan Milosevic and
helped him in every way -- mostly financially -- to stay in power," Mahmud
said in her interview with Vecernji List, published on April 8th.

Contradictory signals from the Serbian government have also been a factor,
according to the Libyan journalist. Although Belgrade froze military and
economic co-operation with Gaddafi's regime in March, critics say the
government's stance remains ambiguous.

Meanwhile, Serbian nationalists have voiced support for Gaddafi, while
condemning NATO's efforts to protect Libyan civilians.

The opposition Serbian Radical Party (SRS), whose leader Vojislav Seselj is
being tried for war crimes at the UN tribunal in The Hague, staged a
pro-Gaddafi rally in Belgrade on April 9th.

"Gaddafi absolutely has our support and we absolutely think that
non-meddling in one country's affairs has to be respected and that citizens
of that country should choose the government that suits them," Dragan
Todorovic, head of the SRS parliamentary caucus, said ahead of the protest.





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[osint] Rekindled Syrian protests could revive Assad's threat to hit Israeli border

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http://www.debka.com/article/20997/

 

Rekindled Syrian protests could revive Assad's threat to hit Israeli border 
DEBKAfile Special Report June 4, 2011, 5:55 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:    Syria
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It's still not over for Bashar Assad?

Two unforeseen events Friday, June 3 rekindled Syrian protests with full
force - just as Syrian President Bashar Assad was preparing to celebrate his
reassertion of authority after suppressing the uprising against his regime
with active Iranian and Hizballah help: The leaders of the Syrian
opposition-in-exile meeting in Antalya under Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan's aegis struck a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood which brought
100,000 Brotherhood loyalists back on the streets in the northern town of
Hama.
debkafile's military sources disclose: Just as the conference of major
Syrian opposition party leaders approached a fruitless ending, the Muslim
Brotherhood, consented to introducing a clause in the "National Unity
Charter" providing for the separation of religion and state in the
guidelines of the post-Assad regime.
The MB made this concession after consulting with the group's leaders in
Cairo and under heavy Turkish pressure.
It means that, even if the Brotherhood, which is banned and persecuted under
the Assad regime, does run for election, the regime taking over would not be
religious in nature.
This decision is of major significance not only for Syria but also for
Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians where the Muslim Brotherhood has a strong
presence.
Word of the Antalya accord flashed through Hama, center of the Brotherhood's
revolt against the Assad family since 1982, and brought half the population
out on the streets. Syrian security forces were caught unawares. Someone on
the spot or along the higher Syrian and Iranian chain of command in Damascus
panicked. An order went out to shoot directly into the crowd and break up
the demonstration with maximum casualties. The result of up to 150 dead and
350 injured ignited fresh outbreaks in neighboring Homs, a town of more than
1.2 million inhabitants.

Northern Syria was aflame again after the uprising in the North and most
other parts of Syria had largely subsided last week.
Fresh disturbances also hit the southern province of Horan and its capital
Deraa a month after unrest there had been suppressed by troops shooting dead
more than 500 protesters and injuring thousands. Covert Saudi agents
operating from Ramtha in neighboring Jordan managed to whip up fresh
anti-Assad riots in Deraa and Deir a-Zur among the Shamar, a nomadic tribe
which roams across the Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi borders and whose center
is in northern Saudi Arabia.
The new outbreaks confronted President Assad with a fresh challenge at the
very moment that he was polishing his victory speech to celebrate the
crushing of the revolt against him.

He must now decide between carrying on with his iron-fist crackdown to douse
persistent protests, or rely on the new bloodbath in Hama, Deraa and Deir
a-Zur to act as a deterrent against the nationwide revival of mass
demonstrations.

The third option, which he threatened earlier in the three-month revolt,
would be to re-channel the fury directed against his regime into aggression
on the Syrian-Israeli border.

 

 

 

 



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[osint] Most wanted terrorist leader (sort of) confirmed dead in U.S. drone strike in Pakistan

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-06/04/c_13911259.htm

 

 



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ISLAMABAD, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The militant group "Harkatul Jihad al-Islami"
confirmed Saturday that its leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a U.S. drone
strike in northwest Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region late Friday
night.

Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the most wanted militants by Pakistan and the United
States, was among nine militants killed in the U.S. air strike, the BBC Urdu
website had earlier reported.

Abu Hanzala,, a purported spokesman for the militant group, confirmed the
death of Kashmiri, the mastermind of the brazen attack on a naval air
station in Karachi last month, which killed 10 Pakistan navy personnel.

"We confirm the martyrdom of our leader Ilyas Kashmiri in U.S. drone
strike," the spokesman said in a hand-written statement sent to local media,
Dawn and Express TV channels reported.

"We will take revenge of our leader on the U.S.," Abu Hanzala said in the
statement.

Kashmiri was killed when he was having tea with other militants in the
village of Laman, about 10 kilometers from Wana, the center of South
Waziristan.

Kashmiri was among the five most wanted militants, whose names were given to
Pakistani authorities by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during
her visit to Islamabad last month.

Kashmiri was thought to be one of potential successors to the slain al-Qaida
chief Osama bin Laden.

The strike came days after Pakistan and the U.S. formed a joint intelligence
network to hunt down the most wanted militants including Ilyas Kashmiri,
Mullah Mohammad Omar, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Atiya Abdur Rahman and Sirajuddin
Haqqani.

The death of Kashmiri is believed to be a second major blow to the
terrorists after Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid on his hideout in
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[osint] Another reason to keep US Senate candidate George 'Macaca' Allen out of office

[Beowulf]

  


 
 Another reason to keep US
Senate candidate George 'Macaca' Allen out of office 


  barenakedislam
| June 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM | Categories:
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U.S. Senate candidate George Allen of Virginia is sticking with his
Alexandria church despite rumblings within the congregation over the
church's decision to allow people from the Religion of Death to pray there.
Gee, I used to like this guy a lot. Washington Examiner - A handful of
people have left the Aldersgate United Methodist Church to [...]

A handful of people have left the Aldersgate United Methodist Church to
protest use of the church by Muslims. 

 

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Allen, though, must tread carefully to avoid an appearance of racial
insensitivity. In his 2006 Senate campaign, Allen referred to an
Indian-American volunteer for his opponent Jim Webb as "macaca," a perceived
racial slur. Allen has repeatedly apologized for the remark.

 

http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/islamchristianlogo.jpg?w=1
75&h=204In a statement, Allen dismissed the matter as a side issue. "With so
many families anxious about gas prices, losing their jobs, their homes, and
fearful the rising national debt will rob our children of the opportunities
we had growing up, it's disappointing to Susan and me that our family's
church would become an issue in this campaign," he said.

Chesapeake Bishop E.W. Jackson, one of several candidates seeking the GOP
nomination along with Allen, criticized the church's decision.

"While we have a biblical mandate to love them as human beings, no pastor or
Christian should cooperate or assist Muslims in their worship practices," he
said. 

 



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[osint] UN probes peacekeepers' absence amid Sudan clashes

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SOP for UN forces since Korea.

 

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EXCLUSIVE-UN probes peacekeepers' absence amid Sudan clashes
Sat Jun 4, 2011 5:48pm GMT
* Zambian troops holed up in Abyei compound for 2 days
* UN sends senior official to Abyei to "assess" troops
By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan stayed holed
up in their barracks for two days during violent clashes between northern
and southern forces that sparked the flight of tens of thousands of
civilians, diplomats told Reuters.

The United Nations is investigating actions of Zambian peacekeepers assigned
to regularly patrol and protect civilians in Abyei in the disputed region
between south and north Sudan, diplomats said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.

"They locked themselves up for a couple of days," a U.N. diplomat said.
"They were then instructed to come out of their barracks and start
patrolling, but they had already lost a crucial 48 hours."

A south Sudan official said nearly 100 civilians have been killed in recent
weeks in the Abyei region.

Diplomats described the peacekeepers' failure to maintain a visible presence
in Abyei during a period of heightened conflict -- which they said is
crucial for deterring attacks -- in disparaging terms. One senior diplomat
described their performance as "pathetic." Another said it was "terrible."

A spokesman for the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) said a
senior military official was heading to Sudan's Abyei region, an oil-rich
zone that both the north and south would like to control once the country
splits on July 9, to assess the performance of U.N. troops deployed there.

"DPKO dispatched its top military official to Abyei to assess the
peacekeepers' response and report back on lessons learned," DPKO spokesman
Michel Bonnardeaux told Reuters.

Diplomats said that U.N. officials in New York were livid when they found
out the Zambian troops had essentially gone into hiding when the violence
escalated.

Zambia's U.N. mission did not respond to a request for comment.
U.N. diplomats said the poor performance of blue-helmeted troops at a time
when the fragile peace deal between north and south Sudan is in danger of
unraveling highlights a serious problem with U.N. peacekeeping -- that the
world body often lacks troops able to handle heavy conflict.

GONE INTO HIDING
The Abyei incident occurred during a spate of violence that began escalating
on May 19 when south Sudanese militia attacked north Sudanese soldiers and
U.N. peacekeepers.

Days after the May 19 skirmish, militias and troops from the north occupied
the region, prompting the flight of some 80,000 people, according to south
Sudanese estimates.

Diplomats said Haile Menkerios, chief of the U.N Missions in Sudan (UNMIS),
also made clear to members of the U.N. Security Council recently that he was
not pleased with the performance of the Zambians in Abyei.

Khartoum's U.N. Ambassador Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told Reuters that
twice when northern Sudanese troops were attacked by southern forces, UNMIS
"didn't do anything."

The U.N. Security Council demanded on Friday an end to the northern
occupation of Abyei, which has sparked fears of a renewed civil war.

Ethiopia has indicated that it would be willing to consider sending
Ethiopian troops to the region if both Khartoum and Juba agreed to their
deployment.

This is not the first time that Zambian troops have failed to distinguish
themselves in Abyei.

In 2008, Zambian peacekeepers refused to allow civilians caught in the
cross-fire of a heavy firefight between northern and southern Sudanese
soldiers into the UNMIS compound.

The civilians forced their way inside, but the incident sparked a similar
internal U.N. "lessons learned" probe.

Two diplomats said Menkerios made the point to members of the Security
Council that U.N. peacekeepers in the field are too often under-equipped,
underfunded and undertrained.

"It was a wake-up call to the council that we need to get better troops," a
diplomat said.

Sudan is not the only place where U.N. peacekeepers have been accused of
leaving civilians in the lurch. Such allegations were widely raised in the
1990s about how U.N. troops behaved in the conflicts in Rwanda and the
Balkans.

U.N. peacekeeping operations generally rely on soldiers from the developing
world, who often need to be trained, equipped, sometimes even clothed before
they can become functioning peacekeepers.

"The Americans and Europeans don't want to send their troops into the field,
and yet they're always demanding robust implementation of mandates," a U.N.
envoy said. "The blue helmets could often use a few really professional
units from North America or Europe in their operations. Where are they?"
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[osint] FW: Adjö, Sweden

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[osint] Stuff To Consider When Planning For SHTF Scenarios

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Lessons from Cairo.

http://tinyurl.com/3u5pmur


Stuff To Consider When Planning For SHTF Scenarios
 


Some good thinking.

>From the somewhat guilt filled comforts of Greece, I have been thinking
about what I learned from the recent Cairo SHTF experience. I am not putting
myself forth as an expert of any sort and, frankly, many or even most items
on the list below might be flat out wrong..who the hell knows. We were in
Cairo from Jan 25th until late Feb 3rd when the neighborhood gunfire became
full-auto and regularly occurring. At that point, we decided that Friday
prayers (the next day) might not yield a pleasant experience. We had no way
of knowing that we had already seen the worst.

Lesson #1..the best weapon for SHTF is truly whatever F*&$ING firearm you
can lay your hands on and it does not matter the slightest bit what it is! I
had a borrowed three shot semi-auto Beretta 26" bbl trap grade shotgun. I
LOVED IT. It was my baby and I truly miss it now!. That said, I would have
given my left nut for my Yugo underfolder or SGL-21. Frankly, I am now of
the opinion that if, in the moment, you are being AT ALL picky about
firearms then by definition the shit has NOT truly hit the fan. One guy on
our street only had a nice little S&W J-frame .22 and he seemed a lot more
relaxed than the guys with baseball bats I can tell you that!

Lesson #2...Good will with one's friends and neighbors has the power to
greatly enhance or even make unnecessary ABSOLUTELY ANY prep you can make
(including having money). Bad will with ones neighbors similarly has the
ability to completely nullify any prep (again, including having money). I am
and was the lucky beneficiary and supplier of the former. As an example, one
night on the street a local young cop who lived in the neighborhood asked me
"where did you get that shotgun". I winked and said, "I found it". He just
smirked and said, "Oh.OK". End of conversation. That's what is achieved by
six years of being the "Cool American" who takes the time to chat with
everyone from street vendors, doormen, and neighborhood kids to villa owners
and businessmen.

Lesson #3..Bugging out is really only an option if you are lucky enough to
be psychic and see the shit BEFORE it truly hits the fan. The bug out plans
you have will almost certainly physically be blocked when SHTF. Good luck
getting to Alexandria after SHTF in Tahrir square or to Aswan when the
government shuts down the rail network! Frankly, we almost realized we had
those options before they were blocked off but by they might have been more
dangerous than bugging in with our friends and neighbors and banding
together to protect the neighborhood. Further, I did not want to be a
"refugee" so bugging in was perfectly fine since we prepped wisely. That
said, and in spite of the above, when you see an escape route, RUN (see
Lesson #4 and #11)!

Lesson #4..Do NOT be too proud to become a "refugee" if you can manage it
comfortably. There is a world of difference between being a penniless
"refugee" and taking a "strategic vacation" (new term I just invented!) on a
commercial flight with a fat wad of cash (see Lesson #13).

Lesson #5.People are stupid. There MAY (repeat.MAY) still be time to prep
the very day and even the second or third day the shit is "kinda" hitting
the fan (SKHTF! another new term!). Grocery stores MAY still be open and
things MAY be as normal for a short time. Now is the time to stock up on
little things you may need more of or on comfort items. I saw this happen in
Cairo even the first days of the worst rioting. Stores were open even a
couple blocks from Tahrir strangely enough..for a while. Day three of the
revolution, when Tahrir looked like a legitimate war-zone, the Souq two
blocks from the square was selling us vegetables and canned goods and,
amazingly, was not all that busy! We cleaned them out and distributed
surplus to those in our building who could not or would not go out (See
Lesson #2)

Lesson #6..Murphy's law applies. Preps will fail or break or prove
impractical when you least expect. For example, the sat phone I just
replaced worked just fine for all of the last five years. I wanted to
upgrade and bought the new model that arrived in Cairo a week before the
riots when my wife returned from the US. The brand new com equipment that
would have totally bailed us out when the govt cut cell and internet..you
guessed it..had a bad battery shipped with it!! Moral of the story: Invest
in MULTIPLE redundancies! I am now also buying a handheld HAM system.

Lesson #7..Marry well! Perhaps this should be Lesson #1. My wife was calm
and collected for the 10 days we were in Cairo during SHTF. She was
organizing things around the house and with neighbors and even making
improvised weaponry (clubs) even better with the addition of protruding
nails etc. She rocks! She also cooked for the "neighborhood watch" and is
now abs

[osint] Attempt to Kill Pakistani President Foiled

[Beowulf]

 

I'll bet the 8 plotters were Muslims.

B
  
http://tinyurl.com/3d7vqzc



Attempt to kill Pakistani president foiled 



 


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ISLAMABAD, June 4 (Xinhua) -- An Attempt to kill Pakistani President Asif
Ali Zardari was foiled as eight plotters were arrested respectively in the
country's capital Islamabad and Punjab province, reported local English TV
channel Express on Saturday night.

According to the report, the security forces first got informed about the
plan by some terrorists to kill the Pakistani President on May 21 by
intercepting a call and arrested four of them in Islamabad and another four
in different areas of Punjab province on Saturday.

Details about the plan and eight arrested terrorists are not available
immediately at this point.

Since the killing of the former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden by the U.S.
forces in Pakistan's northwest city of Abbottabad on May 2, both Pakistan
Taliban and al-Qaida vowed to avenge the death of bin Laden by threatening
to launch attacks at the military, police and security forces as well as the
top government officials in Pakistan.

Pakistan Taliban have meant their words by launching a series of attacks
across the country since then.

Serious attacks launched by them included a twin suicide bomb attack at a
training center of armed border forces in Pakistan's northwest city of
Charsadda on May 13, in which 98 people were killed and more than 140 others
injured; an attack on Pakistani naval air force in Karachi on May 22, in
which over a dozen of security personnel were killed while two U.S.-made P3C
Orion surveillance planes and one helicopter were destroyed; and a suicide
car bomb attack in the country's northwest city of Hangu on May 26, during
which 36 people were killed and over 50 others injured.

The revenge target of the Pakistan Taliban is clear this time. Most of the
targets hit by them are the army, police and the United States. On May 20,
two employees of the U.S. consulate in Peshawar were hit by a road-side
planted bomb, which killed one passerby and injured several others apart
from the two U.S. diplomats. 

 

 



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[osint] TALIBAN IMAM'S MARGATE, FL MOSQUE MUST BE CLOSED

[Beowulf]

- Original Message - 

From: i...@americansagainsthate.org 

To: i...@americansagainsthate.org 

Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:58 AM

Subject: GROUPS TO CALL FOR CLOSURE OF TALIBAN IMAM'S MARGATE, FL MOSQUE

 

http://www.americansagainsthate.org/press_releases/PR-Margate_Mosque.php

June 4, 2011
For Immediate Release


GROUPS TO CALL FOR CLOSURE OF TALIBAN IMAM'S MOSQUE 


IMAM OF MARGATE MOSQUE INVOLVED IN SHIPPING MONEY TO PAKISTANIS COMMITTING
VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICAN TROOPS


(Margate, FL) On Monday, June 6th, Americans Against Hate (AAH), Tea Party
Fort Lauderdale (TPFL), and citizens of Margate will be demonstrating
outside Masjid Jamaat al-Mumineen (MJAM), an Islamic center located in
Margate, Florida. The groups will be calling on the government to shut down
the center for its connection to terrorism. 

Last month, the imam of the mosque, Izhar Khan, along with four members of
his family, including his father, Hafiz, were arrested and charged with a
conspiracy to finance the militant Taliban group in Pakistan. The father, as
well, has discussed buying weapons for the Taliban. 

Currently, the United States is involved in fighting the Taliban in both
Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

The President of the mosque's Board of Directors and the Registered Agent
for the group's corporation, Yazid Ali, continues to support Izhar Khan,
calling him a "bright, young star." 

Joe Kaufman, chairman of Americans Against Hate, stated, "Given the nature
of the arrests, and given the fact that the President of the mosque, as well
as other mosque goers, continue to support the Khans, we believe it is
necessary and warranted that the U.S. government moves to shut down the
mosque. Masjid Jamaat al-Mumineen and its officials should no longer be
allowed to operate within the state of Florida." 

Danita Kilcullen, director of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale, stated, "After this
mosque's imam was found to be involved in financing a terrorist group, how
can this mosque be allowed to remain open? Local citizens are outraged." 

Demonstration details 

When: Monday; June 6, 2011; 7:00 pm 

Where: 3222 Holiday Springs Blvd, Margate, Florida 

Directions: Sample Road west of 441 approx. one mile to stop-light
intersection of Holiday Springs Blvd., Turn left, approx. 1/4 mile 

Contact Joe Kaufman at 754-204-4296, Danita Kilcullen at
teaparty...@gmail.com

 



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[osint] Key al-Qaeda Man (Said) Killed in Pakistan by Drone Strike

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/06/04/world/asia/international-us-pakist
an-kashmiri.html?ref=world
 &pagewanted=print

 


Key Al Qaeda Man Killed in Pakistan by Drone Strike


By REUTERS


Published: June 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM ET 


 

By Michael Georgy and Augustine Anthony 

 

(Reuters) - A U.S.
 drone strike killed a senior
al Qaeda figure in Pakistan after a tipoff from local intelligence, a
Pakistani intelligence official said on Saturday. 

The elimination of Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the most dangerous
militants in the world, appeared to be another coup for the United States
after American special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a garrison town
close to Islamabad on May 2. 

Islamabad's cooperation in the killing could help repair ties with
Washington, badly damaged when it was discovered that bin Laden had
apparently been living in Pakistan for years. 

"We are sure that he (Kashmiri) has been killed. Now we are trying to
retrieve the bodies. We want to get photographs of the bodies," said the
Pakistani intelligence official. 

Kashmiri was wrongly reported to have been killed in a September 2009 strike
by a U.S. drone. 

A Pakistani television station quoted the group Kashmiri headed, Harkat-ul
Jihad Islami (HUJI) which is allied to al Qaeda, as saying the latest report
was true. 

"We confirm that our Amir (leader) and commander in chief, Mohammad Ilyas
Kashmiri, along with other companions, was martyred in an American drone
strike on June 3, 2011, at 11:15 p.m.," Abu Hanzla Kashir, who identified
himself as a HUJI spokesman, said in a statement faxed to the station. 

"God willing ... America will very soon see our full revenge. Our only
target is America." 

The authenticity of the statement could not be verified. 

Kashmiri's death is good news for Pakistan, which has failed to subdue
militants seeking to topple its unpopular government despite a series of
army offensives against their strongholds. 

"It will be a very big blow to militants and Pakistan will be a major
beneficiary because he was behind attacks on Pakistani defence and military
installations," said retired Brigadier Asad Munir, a former Pakistani
intelligence officer. 

Kashmiri, said to be a former Pakistani military officer, and other
militants were with an Afghan Taliban member involved in liaison with the
Pakistani Taliban when the drone missile struck, said the intelligence
official. 

He said they were in a house in South Waziristan, close to the Afghan border
in northwest Pakistan, that was believed to be the headquarters of
Kashmiri's group, which has been described as an operational wing of al
Qaeda. 

"We were closing in on him and he switched off his satellite phone and
cellphone and he wanted to cross the border to Afghanistan to find a hiding
place," the official added. "It was a tipoff by us since we were closely
monitoring his movements." 

Five of his close allies were also killed in the attack by a pilotless drone
aircraft, along with two other militants, intelligence officials said. 

U.S. ASKED PAKISTAN TO GO AFTER KASHMIRI 

A U.S. embassy spokesman said he could not confirm the killing of Kashmiri
or whether Pakistan provided support for an operation. 

The killing of bin Laden aroused international suspicions that Pakistani
authorities had been complicit in hiding him, and led to domestic criticism
of them for failing to detect or stop the U.S. team that killed him. 

Kashmiri was on a list which the United States gave Pakistan of senior
militants it wanted killed or captured, said a Pakistani official. 

Drone strikes have increased under the Obama administration, sometimes
killing civilians and fuelling anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. 

While Pakistani leaders publicly criticise the attacks, analysts say killing
high-value targets like Kashmiri would not be possible without Pakistani
intelligence. 

Washington reiterated its call on Pakistan, a major recipient of U.S. aid,
to crack down harder on militancy after it was discovered that bin Laden had
been living about a two-hour drive from intelligence headquarters. 

The U.S. Department of State has labelled Kashmiri a "specially designated
global terrorist." 

Last year, the U.S. attorney's office quoted a Chicago taxi driver charged
with sending money to Kashmiri as saying the Pakistani militant had told him
he "wanted to train operatives to conduct attacks in the United States." 

Kashmiri battled Soviet occupation troops in the 1980s in Afghanistan, where
he lost an eye. His group also fought Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir
region. 

He has been linked to attacks including the 2008 rampage through the Indian
city of Mumbai which killed 166 people. 

"This will be a huge loss for al Qaeda

[osint] Kenya on High Alert after Terrorist Bombing

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Kenya's government officials have placed the African country on high alert
following a terrorist bombing on Thursday believed to have been the work of
a Somalia-based group affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Ten Kenyan soldiers were wounded after a military vehicle was targeted by a
roadside improvised explosive device (IED) while traveling in the
northeastern section of Kenya. Abey Moallim Hassan, a Kenyan official in the
district, stated that one of the wounded soldiers was in critical condition.


Asked about who was behind making of the IED and the attack, Hassan stated
that no groups so far have officially claimed responsibility, but Somalia's
al Qaeda-linked group Al Shabaab may be responsible, since the terrorist
group has made threats against the Kenyan government.

While fighting against Somalia's transitional government and the national
military and police forces, Al Shabaab has been in combat against African
Union peacekeepers, some of whom come from Kenya, Ethiopia and other
countries.

"An investigation is underway and the government will release a report when
it's available," officials announced.

Kenyan security forces began search operations immediately and arrested at
10 Somalis in connection with the attack. Somalia's Al Shabaab frequently
sends warning messages to Kenyan government officials, and they are expected
to initiate future IED and suicide bomb attacks.

The group stated it is angry with Kenya for training and coordinating forces
loyal to the transitional federal government of Somalia to open a new battle
front in the southern regions, warning that Al Shabaab  would no longer
tolerate what they called Kenya's provocative and aggressive acts against
them.

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Kenya has a practically unprotected border with Somalia and the group's
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sparking the government to announce that its security was put on high alert



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